Encephalopathy is a term used to describe various disorders or diseases that affect the brain. It can cause problems with memory, thinking, behavior, and overall brain function.
Encephalopathy can be caused by a variety of factors such as infections, toxins, or certain medical conditions.
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Other prion diseases include scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose, and bovine
spongiform encephalopathy in cattle.
Impact of intestinal mannitol on hyperammonemia, oxidative stress and severity of hepatic
encephalopathy in the ED — Daniel H. Montes - Cortés et al. — The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Epileptic encephalopathies of the Landau - Kleffner and continuous spike and waves during slow - wave sleep types: genomic dissection makes the link wi...
Moreover, ask the breeder for evidence of a DNA test for
neonatal encephalopathy with seizures (NEwS) and DNA test for von Willebrand's Disease (vWD) for each of the parents.
One night, while lying in bed watching the Seau coverage on TV, he made the decision to donate his brain and spinal tissue to Boston University's Chronic Traumatic
Encephalopathy Center to help further research into athletes and degenerative brain disease.
This acute neurological dysfunction is termed «sepsis
associated encephalopathy» (SAE) and is more common in elderly patients.
They also suggested that ADCK3 mutations be considered in the differential diagnosis of
mitochondrial encephalopathy with POLG - like features.
NFL Hall of Famer Harry Carson joins former NBC anchor Stone Phillips and pathologist Bennet Omalu for a discussion of chronic traumatic
encephalopathy among football players.
The brain bank Duerson referred to, located at Bedford VA Medical Center in Massachusetts, is funded by the U.S. National Football League (NFL) and run by Ann McKee, co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic
Encephalopathy at Boston University in Massachusetts.
Genome - Wide Association Analysis Identifies a Mutation in the Thiamine Transporter 2 (SLC19A3) Gene Associated with Alaskan
Husky Encephalopathy.
Fatal spongiform
encephalopathy occurred in four chimpanzees 12 to 14 months after inoculation with suspensions of brain from four patients, respectively.
The estate of Aaron Hernandez filed a lawsuit on Thursday that claims the late New England Patriots football star had severe chronic traumatic
encephalopathy when he committed suicide following a...
The clinical signs of hepatic
encephalopathy include seizures, depression, tremors, drooling and head pressing.
However, if your dog has already been diagnosed with severe kidney problem, sufficiently high levels of protein in the urine (proteinuria), abnormally high levels of blood urea nitrogen (BUN), or even hepatic
encephalopathy which is the accumulation of nitrogenous wastes in the brain, then low - protein diet is a must.
The tragic deaths of two otherwise healthy 17 - year old high school football players from
hyponatremic encephalopathy in 2015 (5, 6), however, underscores the need for more education towards translating evidenced - based science into practical advice for athletes.
In addition to the new work's potential for RS, there is speculation that it could pave the way to treatments for other neurological disorders, such as learning disabilities, schizophrenia, autism and
newborn encephalopathy as well as some mental retardation that has also been linked to the Mecp2 gene.
In November 1995, MAFF scientists informed the Spongiform
Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), which had been set up in May 1990, that spot checks on abattoirs had revealed that the SBO ban was not being strictly enforced.
If bovine spongiform
encephalopathy turns out to be infectious, it could cause problems out of proportion to the number of cases.
These findings may help in further refinement of the available pharmacotherapy for KV7 -
related encephalopathies, as well as for the design of new ones.
This means that at least some of autism probably comes from a kind of
metabolic encephalopathy — a systemwide process that affects the brain, just like cirrhosis of the liver affects the brain.»
«Knowledge of clinical profiles and MRI features in
SPTAN1 encephalopathy will help clinicians perform the proper diagnostic work - up.»
There's also the recent detailed description of
gluten encephalopathy, or dementia from wheat by the Mayo Clinic; diagnosis is usually made at autopsy.
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The observation that loss - of - function mutations in DENND5A causes epileptic
encephalopathy suggests that DENND5A protein controls membrane trafficking pathways critical for normal neuronal development and strengthens the argument that protein trafficking processes in cells are critical for normal neuronal development and function.
«Gene discovered to cause rare, severe neurological disease: Epileptic
encephalopathy linked to protein trafficking gene.»
This group of progressive diseases includes scrapie in sheep and goats, chronic wasting disease in mule deer and transmissible
mink encephalopathy.
Ingo Helbig adds that «the epileptic
encephalopathies pose a major clinical problem as most children have treatment - resistant epilepsy, intellectual disability and many other medical issues.
In addition, the creation of a zebrafish model for
CHD2 encephalopathy may facilitate the discovery of new drugs that can treat patients with this form of epilepsy.
They found that the transgenic mice were susceptible to classical and atypical Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy prions, and also to mouse - derived Scrapie prions.
Critics charge that rabbits are not good animal models for human brain diseases and note that the dialysis patients suffered from
dialysis encephalopathy, or «dialysis dementia,» not Alzheimer's disease.
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