Sentences with phrase «for tremors»

Diazepam is indicated for tremors and seizures.
Nicotine is rapidly absorbed by the body so if there were going to be any issues it would have happened within an hour or two of consumption; that being said, you should just keep an eye on her for tremors, incoordination and weakness.
This is now a mainstream treatment for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders; switching on the current calms the spot in the brain that is responsible for the tremors or spasms.
Physicists anticipate that LIGO will spark an entirely new field of astronomy, in which scientists survey the universe by feeling for its tremors.
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters)- A warning from U.S. scientists that Oklahoma may be hit by a major earthquake has caused a run on insurance policies for tremors in the heartland state, adding to the woes of residents already in the firing line of devastating tornadoes.
Deep - brain stimulation uses electrodes implanted in the brain to manipulate neurons responsible for tremors associated with Parkinson's disease.
By showing the value of recording those motions, ROMY could pave the way for miniature sensors that could help oil and gas prospectors and even planetary scientists who want to listen for tremors on the moon and Mars.
The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, searches for the tremors of cosmic dustups such as colliding black holes (SN: 10/28/17, p. 8).
The neurologist ordered an MRI as a standard work - up for the tremor disorder.

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This San Francisco - based startup is a group of scientists and engineers working to develop new technologies for people with Essential Tremor and Parkinson's disease, a demographic that includes millions of people whose hands shake so much that just getting food into their mouths is a challenge.
LONDON, April 30 - World stocks are set to notch up a positive month for the first time since January, as a slew of positive earnings from U.S. technology firms and marquee M&A deals help soothe memories of February tremors.
LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- World stocks are set to notch up a positive month for the first time since January, as a slew of positive earnings from U.S. technology firms and marquee M&A deals help soothe memories of February tremors.
Last spring, Toronto - based Klick, a privately owned marketing agency focused on the health care industry, unveiled a wearable device that digitizes the tremors of someone suffering from Parkinson's disease then recreates them for someone else to feel first - hand.
The real thing will likely cause far fewer tremors than its foreshadowing, for two reasons.
Goldman Sachs took another axe to its growth forecasts for India on Tuesday, as the tremors from the government's shocking move to ban high - value banknotes reverberate across financial markets and the real economy.
Tremor is already in profit a year ahead of expectations and is a blueprint for similar acquisitions in the future.
As tremors from Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal continue to reverberate, the social network has made it clearer for users to access and control their data privacy settings.
As tremors from Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal continue to reverberate, the social network has made it clearer for users to access and control their data privacy...
Withdrawal symptoms for sugar addiction can include mood changes, such as irritability, and physical symptoms, such as tremors, or changes in activity level, such as your child becoming more overactive, or lethargic than usual.
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Inspired by the current tremors rippling through the party, it will explore wider questions about what is a political party is for, who is welcome and how it should function.
Mr Kutluoglu described the ongoing debate as «just noise» and «local tremors... for politicos to talk about».
The book draws on a wide terrain: for example, he sees the popular response to the death of Diana as a foreshock or early tremor of the coming Brexit as «the people» distanced themselves from the «establishment».
A battery - powered spoon stays steady to make mealtimes easier for people who have essential tremor.
The question is not trivial: mangled communications about tremors that preceded a deadly quake in the town of L'Aquila in 2009 led to jail sentences for six Italian scientists accused of not warning the public.
«But low - and medium - intensity tremors occur with a certain frequency in Brazil, and these can have drastic consequences depending on where they happen,» said the principal investigator for the research project «Pantanal - Chaco - Paraná basins (PCPB): crust and upper mantle seismic structure and evolution,» supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
WASHINGTON — Tremors in the cosmic fabric of space and time have finally been detected, opening a new avenue for exploring the universe.
Twenty - seven participants with tremor - dominant Parkinson's disease were enrolled in the study; the research team randomly assigned 20 to be treated with focused ultrasound waves on their brains, while the others received a fake procedure, to account for any potential placebo effect.
Jeff Elias, MD, of the University of Virginia Health System, pioneered the use of focused ultrasound for essential tremor, the most common movement disorder, and is now testing it for Parkinson's tremor.
Additional testing is needed to better establish the effectiveness of focused ultrasound for Parkinson's tremor, the researchers concluded.
«Our findings suggest that the patients likely to benefit from this approach are those for whom tremor reduction is enough to improve their quality of life,» said UVA researcher Binit Shah, MD..
Focused ultrasound already has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of essential tremor, the most common movement disorder.
An imminent swarm of tiny quakes beneath western North America could help seismologists prepare for a big one — but only if they can learn to interpret the tremors, finds Naomi Lubick.
And the need for reliable sources of energy becomes more evident with every geopolitical tremor.
Scientists have for the first time shown that a grid of holes in the ground can act as a kind of seismic wall, a development that could lead to technologies that protect buildings from the dangerous tremors of earthquakes.
Local news media report that whole villages of people relocated to make room for the dam will have to move a second time because of the landslides and tremors, indicating that officials failed to foresee the full magnitude of the dam's effects.
The smaller - than - expected tremor has scientists scrambling to redefine rules for areas of extreme seismic stress
While lithium carbonate has been very effective for the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder, and credited for reducing suicides in depressive phases of the disease, patients who take lithium carbonate are often noncompliant because of adverse effects, including hand tremor, diarrhea, vomiting, weight gain and decreased thyroid function.
Many of the houses that were destroyed in the Kobe earthquake on 17 January were built before 1965, and a haze of asbestos dust hung over the city for days after the tremor.
For months in early 2009, the small city of L'Aquila shook with minor tremors and then with a more significant 4.1 - magnitude shock.
The company's CEO, Anupam Pathak, Ph.D., received his doctorate from the U-M College of Engineering — where he first worked on tremor - cancelling advanced microelectronic technologies for other purposes.
Lift Labs is now developing other attachments for the Liftware device, and working with the International Essential Tremor Foundation to raise money to give devices to people with essential tremor who can not afford the $ 295 price of a baseTremor Foundation to raise money to give devices to people with essential tremor who can not afford the $ 295 price of a basetremor who can not afford the $ 295 price of a base unit.
They had experienced tremor for anywhere from 5 years to 57 years.
A six - year study of seismic activity along the San Andreas Fault found that the 2004 Parkfield earthquake caused breakage and microcracking in shallow rock layers that changed the speed at which seismic waves moved through the area, making it more vulnerable to tremors for more than three years afterward.
«Our data show this device has very good potential to assist those who have tremor and aren't candidates for surgery,» he says.
A neurosurgical procedure in which an implanted neurostimulator delivers electrical signals to specific areas of the brain to help regulate abnormal signals, DBS is currently only approved in the U.S. for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.
Last week, findings presented at the huge annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience further buttressed the theory that spread of the rogue protein, called α - synuclein, is responsible for the progressive disease, which is marked by tremor, stiff movements, depression, and, ultimately, dementia.
As for the idea that the smaller tremors reduce the risk by releasing energy, Bertolaso insisted that he had heard it from scientists at the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), and that he had used the same phrase in the past without being corrected by any of his seismology consultants.
The Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has spawned a globe - girdling network of 300 detector stations that sniff out radionuclides, listen for low - frequency sounds, and record tremors — all to discern whether countries are carrying out clandestine nuclear weapons tests.
The seven scientists took part in a meeting of an official advisory committee in L'Aquila on 31 March 2009, called to analyze the danger posed by an ongoing series of small - and medium - sized tremors that had shaken the town for several months.
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