Sentences with phrase «form of brain damage»

If left untreated for too long, jaundice can spread from the bloodstream to the brain, causing a form of brain damage called kernicterus.

An autopsy study showed that Duerson's brain was riddled with classic signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a form of brain damage that is becoming an increasing concern among athletes in violent contact sports.

Such cells could be grown into new neurons for treating people who have suffered some form of brain damage,...

Not exact matches

Any form of hurrying you into the birth process or, once into it, hurrying the process faster than it goes naturally will damage cells in the baby's brain.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

This form of abuse can cause serious injuries, including blindness, eye damage, developmental delays, seizures, paralysis, and permanent brain damage.

Under the Bloomberg administration, Jewish parents were required to sign a consent form before the controversial ritual, which has been linked to two deaths and two cases of brain damage since 2000.

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

Now, there is growing interest in less damaging ways of helping people with the condition — including talking therapies and even forms of brain training.

Toxicologists reported that buckyballs, a spherical form of carbon, can cause brain damage in fish — the first indication that nanomaterials could pose a threat to aquatic life.

DAMAGE to a specific brain area may increase feelings of transcendence, which are part of some religious experiences and other forms of spirituality.

At the hearing, Carpenter suggested that cell phones may increase the brain's production of reactive forms of oxygen called free radicals, which can interact with and damage DNA.

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.

New research suggests that repeated exposure to galactic cosmic rays and other forms of radiation would be debilitating — astronauts could suffer brain damage or develop leukemia after reaching the Red Planet — and ultimately deadly.

But this remarkable therapeutic benefit isn't limited to MS. Previous research in animal models that mimic other diseases suggest that certain forms of amyloids can ease damage from strokes, traumatic brain injuries and even heart attacks.

Thus, we have the following: Under the cognitive load of thinking — which almost always entailed visualization, pattern matching and generating the spatial imagery to form analogies — my damaged brain would rapidly grow fatigued.

Wilson says the team next plans to investigate if lithium chloride can blunt other forms of neurological damage, such as that resulting from trauma and stroke, both of which can kill large groups of brain cells.

By delivering brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) directly into the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, the parts of the brain where memories are formed then consolidated, the researchers successfully tackled damage exactly where Alzheimer's strikes first.

The researchers concluded that TN possessed a rare form of «blindsight» wherein a brain - damaged person with normal eyes can't process visual information but can still subconsciously react to it.

In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high - fat, low - carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing a relatively rare, often fatal and always severe form of epilepsy marked by prolonged seizures that require medically induced comas to prevent them from further damaging the body and the brain.

There are a number of reasons why the trials may have failed, Hardy says, including the possibility that the antibody did not have high enough affinity for the particular forms of amyloid that do the most damage in the brain, or that the patients in the trials had already experienced too much brain degeneration to benefit.

While Zika virus causes devastating damage to the brains of developing fetuses, it one day may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

A particular type of macrophage known as microglia are found throughout the brain and spinal cord — in progressive forms of MS, they attack the CNS, causing chronic inflammation and damage to nerve cells.

At present, the most common, sporadic form of Alzheimer's disease is difficult to diagnose until symptoms are readily apparent and significant damage to the brain has occurred; findings from this study may provide clues to suitable diagnostic markers.

Changes in these fat - like substances, may suggest a method to diagnose all forms of Alzheimer's disease before significant damage to the brain occurs.

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Mutations in tau cause neurodegeneration in human brains, and tau modified by the addition of phosphate groups (p - tau) forms aggregates and damages neurons.

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.

«By studying how damage to particular brain regions produces specific forms of cognitive impairment, we can map the architecture of the mind, identifying brain structures that are critically important for specific intellectual abilities.»

Without progranulin, the microglia are unrestricted — and induce prolonged and excessive inflammation that leads to neuron damage — and can contribute to the vast array of symptoms that afflict sufferers FTD and other fatal forms of brain disease.

The compound sticks to the free - floating forms of the protein amyloid, which build up into damaging plaques in the brain.

Additionally, children and those who are pregnant or breastfeeding are advised to avoid all forms of Oregon grape, as berberine - the main active component - can cause brain damage in infants and young children.

One group of rats also received omega - 3 fatty acids in the form of flax seed oil and DHA, an omega - 3 compound that protects the brain from damage and facilitates memory and learning.

It's got a terrible reputation in the mass media and in natural health groups, with its opponents blaming MSG in foods for Alzheimer's, migraines, fatigue, stomach pain, central nervous system damage, Chinese Food Syndrome, weird feelings in the brain, and other forms of cognitive degradation.

«It didn't seem to have done any physical damage to him, but some weeks later he formed the belief that his brain had died,» said Zeman, a neurologist at the University of Exeter in the UK.

However, these diversions are most interesting when they take on the form of plentiful boss fights — well - designed battles that test your brain much more than they do your brawn, like one battle in limbo where you play a game of Simon Says with a ghost king to deal damage to him.

Otherwise, every adult over 30 would be suffering from some form of «brain damage».

Partisan politics is such a fertile environment for near - absolute brain damage in the form of compartmentalized thinking.

If your child has been diagnosed with Erb's Palsy, brain damage, or other forms of birth injury due to irregularities during child birth, you owe it to yourself and to your child to know for sure.

[28] At the risk of appearing to be overly semantic about this analysis, I take it that what counsel want Dr. Malcolm to be able to do is to testify by way of opinion about whether or not there has been some form of harm or damage to the tissues of the brain of Ms. Meghji as opposed to some form of harm or damage to the mind or emotions or personality of Ms. Meghji.

During the course of his career, Mr. Rodriguez has successfully represented children who have suffered brain damage from obstetrical malpractice and blindness from neonatal malpractice, and patients who have been injured due to other forms of hospital, physician and nursing errors, including the failure to timely diagnose breast, prostate, rectal, colon, and lung cancer, the performance of unnecessary surgeries, and surgical mistakes.

During the course of her career, she has successfully represented children who have suffered brain damage from obstetrical malpractice, and patients who have been injured due to other forms of hospital, physician and nursing errors, including the failure to timely diagnose breast, prostate colon, and bone cancer (Ewing's Sarcoma), the performance of unnecessary surgeries, and surgical mistakes.

Spokeswoman Jennipher Dickens, whose infant son was shaken by his father at the age of seven weeks, said in a statement: «As a result of the child abuse my son endured in the form of Shaken Baby Syndrome, my son now has irreversible brain damage.