Sentences with phrase «function after brain injury»

A small neuroprotective molecule improves motor function after brain injury in mice and macaques.

«Inosine treatment helps recovery of motor functions after brain injury: First study in primates shows promise reports restorative neurology and neuroscience.»

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If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.

«One thing we wondered was how a particular part of the brain functioned years after an arm and hand hadn't moved due to disease or injury,» Hochberg says.

After a two - week course of this multimodal regimen, males showed a dramatic increase in sensorimotor function (50 percent to 75 percent), working memory (decreases in path length to a platform: 375 cm to 300 cm) and a decrease in animals presenting with severe brain injury volumes (80 percent to 36 percent) compared to hypothermia and NAC treatment.

Hall says that the team is also stratifying the study group based on pubertal status, hypothesizing that sex hormones may alter the dose - response, and by children who have severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), noting that neurohormonal influences affect immune function after severe TBI.

Here, the research team led by Associate Professor Yukio Nishimura, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Natural Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), and Masahiro Sawada, a former graduate student of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirotaka Onoe, a team leader at RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies found that the nucleus accumbens, that control motivation in the brain, activates the activity of the motor cortex of the brain, and then promotes recovery of motor function during the early stage of recovery after spinal cord injury.

Efrati's earlier trials found HBOT induces neuroplasticity that leads to repair of chronically impaired brain functions and improved quality of life for post-stroke and mild traumatic brain injury patients, even years after the initial injury.

The article, «Actual Reality: Using the Internet to assess everyday functioning after traumatic brain injury,» was epublished on February 19 in Brain Injury (doi: 10.3109 / 02699052.2015.1004brain injury,» was epublished on February 19 in Brain Injury (doi: 10.3109 / 02699052.2015.1004Brain Injury (doi: 10.3109 / 02699052.2015.1004744).

In animal studies, intermittent fasting after injury improved brain function from stroke and diseases that affect the brain.

Sulphorophane, like kale's other antioxidants, has anti-inflammatory properties that, according to an article in Neuroscience Letters, may help cognitive function, especially after brain injury.

Victims of brain injury or trauma deserve a careful analysis of how they functioned before and after the injury.

It is very common for ICBC brain injury claims to include opposing medical evidence and numerous «lay witnesses» who give evidence of changes in a Plaintiff's level of functioning after the accident.

Cerebral palsy affects a baby's brain function and body movement and can be the result of an injury to the brain in the womb, during delivery, or after birth.

Caregiving appraisal after traumatic brain injury: The effects of functional status, coping style, social support and family functioning