Sentences with phrase «effects of brain damage»

In certain individuals, there is no hope of reversing the effects of brain damage as a result of petrol sniffing; the question now is how to treat them.

The effects of the brain damage are often the greatest immediately after the injury, as the brain suffers temporary damage from swelling and bruising (contusions).

The permanent effects of brain damage, amputation, broken bones, spinal injury, and paralysis, such as paraplegia or quadriplegia, are not easily overcome.

Brenda Milner studied the effects of brain damage, in particular on a region known as the medial temporal lobe, and its effects on memory.

Moreover, the work contains an extended argument with the «classical» neurology of Hughlings Jackson and Kurt Goldstein, who, according to Sacks, maintained that «the mind, man's glory, lies wholly in the abstract and categorical, and the effect of brain damage... is to cast him out of this high realm into the almost subhuman swamplands of the concrete.»

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

Not exact matches

Moghadam later attributed some of his behavior to the effects of the then unknown brain tumor, but the first indication that Moghadam's unruly approach could do damage came late last year, after his surgery had been deemed a success.

To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of words.

Many other and quite unusual effects, however, appear only as a result of brain damage.

His book, Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain (IVP) was one of the first academically backed works to suggest that pornography could have a damaging effect on consumers.

i have been very affected by the control of the amygdala, so it is extra important that i call my fears and adrenalin release in to question... others may be less aware of how the brain works and leads them because they have not experienced the damaging effects of fight or flight quite so dibilitatingly... as i understand it, it drives us all to some degree.

We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurons in our brains.

Liston also fabricated quaint metaphors to describe phenomena ranging from brain damage to the effects of his jab: «The middle of a fighter's forehead is like a dog's tail.

The high percentage of athletes reporting that they continued to play despite experiencing concussion symptoms, while similar to the rates reported in other studies, is concerning, as the failure to diagnose concussions in athletes can lead to further damage to the brain before full recovery, expose them to the cumulative effects of injuries and increased risk of second impact syndrome.

Modeling ADHD - type arousal with unilateral frontal cortex damage in rats and beneficial effects of play therapy, Brain and Cognition.

VOCs are linked to toxic health effects over time and with a high level of exposure, including cancer and brain damage.

Recently i read that methods of teaching them to self - sooth like crying - out can damage their brain cells, and it effects them emotionally.

For instance, recent research has shed light on a group of chemicals in the brain that naturally dampen the damaging effects of prolonged exposure to stress hormones.

It is critical for physicians to monitor these secondary tissue damages, as they are frequently the origin of significant long - term effects, including brain damage, cognitive deficits, psychosocial / behavioral / emotional changes, bodily damage and biochemical changes at the cellular level.

Failing this, a good anticonvulsant would prevent the spread of the seizure within the brain and offer protection against possible excitotoxic effects that may result in brain damage.

The well - known short - term effects of THC, which include cognitive and motor impairments, don't seem to impart any long - term damage to adult brains, said Igor Grant from the University of California, San Diego.

Laureys's team found that zolpidem had no significant effect on any of 60 patients with brain damage (Functional Neurology, in press).

Because women are less specialized, their brains seem to be more resilient — they recover faster and more easily from the effects of strokes — and better at compensating if one region is damaged.

«We have seen that two gambling distortions — the «gambler's fallacy» and the «near - miss» effect — that are evident in the general population, and which appear to be increased in problem gamblers, are actually abolished in patients with damage to the insula region of the brain,» he said.

The effects of Zika virus can be severe and include microcephaly where the skull has partially collapsed, decreased brain tissue, joints with limited range of motion, nervous system damage, and other health issues.

Brain injury does not necessarily result in long - term impairment or disability, although the location and extent of damage both have a significant effect on the likely outcome.

This shows that the gut bacteria which thrive during a high fat diet are playing a role in the damaging effects of the diet on brain signals.

«Our study showed that lithium chloride prevented many of the damaging neurological effects of alcohol abuse on the still - developing brain, especially the impact on the parts of the brain controlling sleep,» says co-senior study investigator Donald Wilson, PhD.

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.

The diagnosis and treatment of female cancers are known to affect fertility for several reasons: some chemotherapy regimens can cause damage to the ovary, and this can occur at any age; radiotherapy can also compromise female fertility through effects on the ovary, uterus and potentially those brain centres which control the reproductive axis.

Dirk Bertens investigated the effect of the training on sixty people with non-congenital brain damage who had problems with planning.

In this and in its other histories, Mental Lives shows how the damaged brain finds ingenious solutions to overcoming the effects of its lesions.

In general, after a patient has experienced 24 hours in a seizure and there have been multiple failed attempts to stop it with drugs, physicians will use general anesthetics to put a patient in a coma to protect the muscles, kidneys and brain from damage — common side effects of prolonged seizure episodes.

The study, published May 6, 2016 in Cell Stem Cell, also shows that inhibiting this mechanism reduces brain cell damage, hinting at a new therapeutic approach to mitigating the effects of prenatal Zika virus infection.

Perhaps that would mean a drug for people who carry the ApoE4 gene, one that would mimic the effects of a parasite without incurring the damage of an infection — a kind of muzzle for the brain's immune system that would keep cells like the astrocytes from attacking healthy neurons.

Dr Tom Russ, of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, who led the research, said: «This study provides further evidence for the important links between mind and body, and of the damaging effects psychological distress can have on physical wellbeing.

The memory loss was unexpected, and Dr. Penfield and I suspected that the surgeon had operated on the wrong side of the brain, and that there was some damage in the corresponding region in the opposite hemisphere, so that we were seeing the effect of a bilateral lesion.

She also identified a potential way to block the damaging effects of fibrinogen as it enters the brain while allowing it to maintain its ability to clot blood.

â $ œWe have found neuroprotective compounds that can limit damage to the brain during ischemia associated with stroke and other brain injuries, but have minimal side effects, â $ says senior author Stephen Traynelis, PhD, professor of pharmacology at Emory University School of Medicine.

Limoli and colleagues studied the effects of such radiation on rats, and it didn't take long for serious brain damage to set in.

Specifically, the funding will enable Gladstone researchers to collaborate with Numerate, a South San Francisco - based chemoinformatics company, to develop small - molecule therapies that prevent the damaging effects of apoE4 on the brain.

With the loss of the cushioning effect provided by free - moving collagen in the blood vessels, the force of the surge of blood that is driven into the arteries by the pumping action of the heart is carried directly to organs like the kidneys and the brain, damaging to the structures that filter our blood and that connect the functional regions of our brain, and putting us at risk of a stroke.

Here, we examine the effects of damage to the four lobes of the brain: frontal, occipital, parietal, and temporal.

Sleep deprivation may cause brain cells to eat some of the brain's synapses, which can have damaging effects.

In a double - blind, sham - controlled, cross-over study, Thibaut et al (2014) examined the effects of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tDCS (DLPF - tDCS) on Coma Recovery Scale - Revised (CRS - R) scores in severely brain - damaged patients with disorders of consciousness.

«We are also launching further studies to determine whether children who have microcephaly born to mothers infected by the Zika virus is the tip of the iceberg of what we could see in damaging effects on the brain and other developmental problems.»

If we can develop therapies that help them fight off the negative effects of the mutation, we're hopeful that people could expect more healthy years, thanks to the remarkable ability of the brain to cope with damage.

In effect, administration of DHA seemed to shut down the oxidative damage that binge drinking usually exerts on the brain.

This novel chemical has been shown to provide aggressive brain antioxidant protection, helping to reduce the damaging effects of villainous toxins called free radicals.

According to an article published in The Economist, Dr. Fernando Gomez - Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery and physiological science, believes that, «appropriate changes to a person's diet can enhance his cognitive abilities, protect his brain from damage and counteract the effects of aging.»