Sentences with phrase «in damaging the brain»

Scientists have long speculated that astrocytes, the cell type that controls many neuronal functions, give rise to neural stem cells in damaged brain tissue.

Also, in animal tests, hyperthyroidism in the mothers results in damaged brain development of their offspring.

Some of these 10 proteins were associated with tau and amyloid proteins — both found in damaged brain tissue in Alzheimer's.

«We know that processes involved in damaging the brain in a disease like Alzheimer's can start many years before changes become apparent on brain scans or people experience any symptoms.

Not exact matches

A baby born with brain damage at a hospital in Oahu was confirmed to have been infected by the Zika virus, that state's department of health said.

Of the 399 eligible claims, 124 were deaths and 17 were victims with physical injuries that resulted in quadriplegia, paraplegia, double amputation, permanent brain damage, or pervasive burns.

Neurotrack has engineered software that uses infrared eye - tracking to detect damage to the hippocampus in the brain three to six years before symptoms appear and damage to memory and nerve centers is irreversible.

The worst injury was suffered by Ryan Berntt, a teenager who was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by police, leaving him in a month - long coma and with permanent brain damage.

The materials are now being used in repairing jaws, faces, skulls, blood vessels, even damaged brain tissue.

Nashiri, who suffered brain damage while in secret CIA custody, also needs to undergo a court - ordered MRI.

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.

During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

In fact, some research shows that left - handed folks might even have an easier time recovering from brain damage.

Every time you multitask you aren't just harming your performance in the moment; you may very well be damaging an area of your brain that's critical to your future success at work.

Many users of legal highs — in the US, UK and elsewhere — have become very sick, sometimes even brain damaged, due to smoking the synthetic marijuana.

One of the clearest pieces of evidence that cannabis can cause lasting damage to the brain came in a 2012 New Zealand study that followed cannabis users over several decades.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

Massive damage to a brain results in death.

so prayers please, should i stay on disability, and i could whine and moan enough, and i am probably a fool for trying to be anything other than a disabled aids case with a disintegrating back and diabetes and brain damage who should not be testing my luck in nyc.

Well, not as in made to not be brain damaged (that would be too EASY)... instead he'll find «peace», yeah, that's the ticket.

The difficulty in ascertaining whether a potential organ donor is dead was exemplified in a University of Bonn Medical Centre study where two out of 113 who were initially thought to be mortally brain - damaged defied the fatal prognosis and made recoveries.

«Based on «extensive damage» in the child's brain, the hospital recommended to the child's parents that active treatment be stopped,» reports CNN.

To complicate things further, young children who suffer brain damage in the left hemisphere often develop language normally, with the right hemisphere picking up the slack.

These suggested changes will either be rejected by those in the boxing community (boxing without head shots) or will fail to reduce the potential for devastating harm (head guards have been shown to be generally ineffective in protecting from brain damage).

This just seems so utterly bizarre that I suspect it's either a stunt, this person was never truly an atheist in the first place, or there's brain damage involved.

No one would want to survive in a conscious state either, I guess, if they were brain damaged.

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.»

Reality... Sorry to fail you It turned to have been a small internal bleeding in the personality sector of my brain that had left me unconscious for more than three days in hospital... but thanks to mercy of God and prayers of my family I was able to recover with out any damages what so ever... Any way only today I managed to get an internet line to communicate herewith tonight from Amman, Jordan... It is a pleasant weather here cool and rainy wet...!

Some would insist that each life is valuable, others might question whether some children with very severe brain damage are in any real sense capable of human life.

And a soldier that gets hit on the head a lot — even though he may live because he's got his helmet on — he's not going to be much use in battle, and very soon, he will lose his hearing, his sight, his ability to think, and probably will end up with some serious brain damage and maybe die prematurely.

Marijuana causes damage to the preborn and the brain function in general.

In terms of what we know of damage in the brain's right hemisphere, this can be called «polishing» (Arnold J. Mandell, «Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence: God in the Brain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than they arIn terms of what we know of damage in the brain's right hemisphere, this can be called «polishing» (Arnold J. Mandell, «Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence: God in the Brain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than they arin the brain's right hemisphere, this can be called «polishing» (Arnold J. Mandell, «Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence: God in the Brain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than theybrain's right hemisphere, this can be called «polishing» (Arnold J. Mandell, «Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence: God in the Brain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than they arin the Brain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than theyBrain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than they arin Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than they are.

it will make you wonder if there is a spirit beyond our bodies,,, or all of it is in the brain itself... I see how hard it is for stroke victims to return to their old self after the brain has been damaged... and I wondered sometimes if the person I knew was even in the body anymore... It is a question I do not have a firm answer for... but I like to think the spirit exists and just can not use the brain anymore... it is like a computer interface that is damaged and the body has failed to repair itself... Our brains can reroute data, or rebuild some damage..

when they warmed his body and gave him oxygen on the way to the hospital he woke up, everyone screamed it's a miracle... then science had to step in and explain it wasn't a miracle, the temperature of the water lowered his core temperature so low that his body required less oxygen, thus he didn't recieve enough brain damage to cease funtioning.

In contrast, the medieval mind - set exhibited patterns characteristic of damage in the brain's left hemisphere — specificallIn contrast, the medieval mind - set exhibited patterns characteristic of damage in the brain's left hemisphere — specificallin the brain's left hemisphere — specifically.

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.

Wow, one more crappy long boring piece of fiction... that's quite the imagination you have Austin - did you by chance damage your brain in the crash?

Sadly, in the case of Deanna Laney, she religiously murdered two of her children, Luke age six and Joshua age eight, and had caused severe brain damage to 14 month old Aaron.

Sadly, in the case of Deanna Laney, she religiously mur * dered two of her children, Luke age six and Joshua age eight, and had caused severe brain damage to 14 month old Aaron.

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.

@ TTTOO: are you suggesting a brain - damaged person is better equipped for thriving in human existence?

Degenerative diseases of the brain that erode personality, and cases where brain damage causes sudden changes in character, are both only possible if character itself is biological.

His parents confirmed that Charlie had died in a hospice yesterday after a long battle with an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and muscle weakness.

got drunk on night, lost control of his car, drove in to a church (could have killed someone), asked for forgiveness and now anything he does can't be considered a sin or bad b / c he has an imaginary friend to defend him... in reality Austin received brain damage during his drunken rampage and no longer is able to use rational thought

And as for people in PVS, we will never know what their damaged brains are capable of relearning unless we are willing to nurture them.

Unfortunately, like most water - soluble vitamins, Vitamin B12 is stored in the liver, kidneys & other tissues & a deficiency may not show up for several years, which is a huge concern because after about 7 years of B12 deficiency there can be irreversible brain damage.

Iodine deficiency is also the most common cause of preventable brain damage in the world.

In response, your brain starts to repair the damaged tissue.

The years of abuse in the boxing ring had left him brain damaged, excess fluid oozing onto the surface of his brain.

Emmert has been a brain - damaged, sputtering fartcloud of a bureaucrat in his tenure at the NCAA, but so was Myles Brand, a perfectly intelligent human being who could not define what the NCAA did in Congressional hearings.