Sentences with phrase «early brain damage»

Of course, some fetal or early brain damage results in deficits that affect functions other than motor control, and so they can get classified differently.

If some precise mix of, say, early brain damage, social ineptitude, paranoia and fury over life's unfair twists cooks up mass killers, scientists don't know the toxic recipe.

«New imaging technique detects early brain damage from hypertension.»

Not exact matches

Even if you have an interesting story to tell, most investors won't want to go through the brain damage of doing a «down round,» which creates tension between them and early investors.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

I was in town reporting on brain damage in fighters, and had met a fellow at a kickboxing fight earlier in the week who mentioned that he could take me to The Money Team mecca itself, and I, like a brawler capitalizing on opportunity in the midst of bare - knuckle madness, jumped at the chance.

There are a few doctors now theorizing that the rise in autism is due to brain damage caused by early cord clamping.

Early diagnosis and treatment is the key to avoiding brain damage.

The authors chose to evaluate the results by creating an index of primary events comprising intrapartum stillbirths, early neonatal deaths, neonatal encephalopathy [brain damage] meconium aspiration syndrome, brachial plexus injury, and fractured humerus or clavicle.

Assuming you're a proponent of home birth, here's my question: Why should either the taxpayers or the premiums for others in your insurance pool pay for your baby's NICU stay, early childhood interventions for brain damage, etc..?

While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had earlier stated that BPA — the chemical that hardens plastics in products like bottles and cups, and is used in linings of metal cans — is safe; the agency announced last month that a few new studies have underlined «some concerns» about BPA's possibility of potentially damaging the brain of fetuses, infants and children.

Scientists have linked BPA to a growing list of ailments: cancer, reproductive and cardiovascular system disorders (including damage to the prostate gland, infertility and early puberty), brain and neurological system dysfunctions, behavioral problems, diabetes and obesity.

He explains how early adversity causes stress which damages young children's developing brains,

Routine vaccination of babies (with the Hib vaccine) prevents many cases of meningitis, another cause of brain damage in the early months.

The BHA has made its comments in light of a new legal case launched by Tony Nicklinson which seeks clarity in the law on murder and assisted dying, and ahead of an appeal later today in the case of Frances Inglis, who was given a life sentence earlier this year after being found guilty of murder after giving her permanently brain - damaged son a lethal heroin overdose.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

* The NIH says its candidate vaccine — which contains the S139N mutation — did not damage brain tissue in earlier monkey tests.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

So now, with late - stage clinical failures piling up, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set off down a path to adapt those standards as researchers are pushed inexorably into earlier and earlier forms of the disease, ahead of the brain damage inflicted by Alzheimer's.

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

Early sustained cortisol exposure also damages the hippocampus, a part of the brain that regulates mood and memory.

The babies of women infected early in pregnancy have been born with microcephaly and other birth defects; a recent World Health Organization estimate suggests there have been 1781 brain - damaged babies born in countries recently infected with the virus.

Researchers have studied the brain activity of young binge - drinking college students in Spain, and found distinctive changes in brain activity, which may indicate delayed brain development and be an early sign of brain damage.

A shortage of TRH in the uterus or early childhood can lead to impaired development, dwarfism, and brain damage.

What these illnesses have in common is that they're caused by abnormal proteins that accumulate in or between brain cells to form plaques, producing damage that causes mental decline and early death.

«Young binge drinkers show altered brain activity: Scientists have found distinctive changes in brain activity in binge - drinking college students, which may be an early marker of brain damage.»

Memory for odors is particularly complex, making scratch - and - sniff tests an early indicator of damage to the brain

Linda Bartoshuk, a University of Florida researcher who studies how taste perception affects health, knew from earlier research that middle - ear infections can damage the chorda tympani, the nerve that carries taste information from the front of the tongue to the brain.

Based on these findings, DTI may offer a role in assessing brain damage in early Alzheimer's disease and monitoring the effect of new therapies.

According to forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, an autopsy after his death revealed that Waters» brain had suffered so much damage from football injuries that it resembled that of an 85 - year - old man with early stage Alzheimer's disease.

«Compound shown to reduce brain damage caused by anesthesia in early study.»

Doctors often treat the condition by patching the good eye and forcing the brain to rely on the other eye, but the treatment risks damaging vision in the good eye, and if it doesn't succeed or occur early enough in a child's visual development, the vision loss in the impaired eye can be permanent.

Such stressors are thought to be particularly damaging during critical periods of brain development such as early puberty, he says.

By tweaking the charges of brain cells, researchers alter early brain development, opening a door to healing mature brains or undoing genetic damage

The ambitious goal: to learn to identify early signs of trauma - induced brain damage from subtle changes in blood chemistry, brain imaging, and performance tests — changes that may show up decades before visible symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and impulsive behavior.

Abnormal levels of the proteins may be useful biomarkers that could help us study early treatments to limit or reverse the damage to brain cells and even prevent the development of the full - blown disease,» said study author Edward Goetzl, MD, a Professor of Medicine with the University of California, San Francisco, a researcher at the National Institute on Aging, and a scientist of NanoSomiX, Inc., a California - based biotechnology company that provided a grant for method development for the study.

Earlier this year, another team reported using a brain machine interface to allow a quadriplegic to move his finger and arms, but that system directly activated arm muscles with brain signals detected by implanted electrodes, bypassing the damaged spinal cord.

Experts were concerned that patients with early brain tissue damage — which can be difficult for stroke doctors to see — were more likely to suffer a brain bleed if they were treated with alteplase.

It had previously been thought that giving the drug to people with signs of early damage in the brain caused by a stroke would increase the chances of them suffering a bleed on the brain — which can be fatal.

The Institute of Psychiatry at King's college London sent the world of info junkies into a mild panic earlier this year by declaring that e-mail might do more damage to your brain than smoking pot.

Earlier treatment is better than later treatment to restore blood flow and prevent or limit damage to the brain, Saver noted.

What these illnesses have in common is that they're caused by abnormal proteins that accummulate in or between brain cells to form plaques, producing damage that causes mental decline and early death.

«Now we have some information about what it is doing early on to damage brain and spinal cord cells.»

As early as age 5, movement is impaired «because the brain does not have the energy it needs and it also accumulates DNA damage,» says Ansari, who has a joint appointment with the Genome Center of Wisconsin at UW — Madison.

This research points to inflammation as a potential early indicator of later brain degeneration, but we can not say whether inflammation could be causing brain shrinkage or if it is a response to other damaging processes that might already be underway.

The research suggests that elevated levels of urea in the brain may be an early feature of Huntington's disease, but it did not explore what might lead to elevated urea or whether urea contributes to damage to nerve cells in the disease.

Early diagnosis would allow potential therapies to be tested before substantial brain damage occurred.

Both recent experience with immunotherapy for clearance of Aβ in AD, and their own (and Prothena's) experience with AS - clearing immunotherapies in animal models, indicate that in order to be effective as disease - modifying agents when administered alone, therapies that remove proteinaceous aggregates from the brain must be initiated in the early clinical or even preclinical stages of the disease, before the burden of other forms of aging damage becomes entrenched.

A New Way to Image Early Damage in the AD Brain Yong Wang, PhD Washington University School of Medicine (Saint Louis, MO)

A possible hypothesis for exactly how stress contributes is that it may cause a neurotoxic reaction in the brain (primarily in the hippocampus) that leads to cell damage and death in individuals who are already vulnerable (due to genes or early environmental insult).