Sentences with phrase «induced brain damage»

While there are likely many routes to «autism,» including prenatal neurological insults and toxic post-natal exposures, this preliminary analysis of VICP - compensated cases suggests that autism is often associated with vaccine - induced brain damage.

People who exercised had significantly less alcohol - induced brain damage than people who didn't.

However I think cannabis might be neuroprotective in humans as our own research has shown that alcoholics who use cannabis have less alcohol - induced brain damage than those that don't.»

Unsupervised communication For paraplegics who lose motor and sensory function as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury or stroke - induced brain damage, simply communicating can be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

The ambitious goal: to learn to identify early signs of trauma - induced brain damage from subtle changes in blood chemistry, brain imaging, and performance tests — changes that may show up decades before visible symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and impulsive behavior.

Although there are no controlled human studies, research in animals also suggests that a stimulating environment can compensate for lead - induced brain damage.

And Nutt and his colleagues have also found that THC use protects alcoholics from alcohol - induced brain damage.

The leading cause of jaundice induced brain damage (kernicterus) is breastfeeding and breastfeeding doubles the risk of neonatal hospital admission leading to literally tens of thousands of hospital admissions per year.

Consider, too, that breastfeeding is now the leading cause of kernicterus (jaundice induced brain damage) responsible for 90 % of the cases of this serious complication that often results in long term disability or even death.

Not exact matches

Jackson's memoir and other recent books don't just deliver the hard facts on football - induced brain and body damage.

One is to allow the patient time for possible recovery to come about, and the other is the use of induced hypothermia to reduce the brain's use of oxygen, thus giving doctors more time to treat the patient before further damage occurs due to any lack of oxygen.

The induced hypothermia protocol is successful in reducing brain damage and death in babies with moderate and severe HIE.

«While environmental enrichment didn't seem to significantly influence the number of neurons [that were damaged],» explains Tsai, «it does induce the growth of dendrites and high numbers of synapses,» both of which are neuronal structures that underlie how brain cells communicate with one another.

Under this induced deep hypothermia, surgeons are able to briefly stop the heart while performing procedures on the heart or large vessels close to the heart without increasing the risk of permanent brain damage.

«Damaging consequences of Zika virus infection in human minibrains: Zika virus reduces growth, induces cell death, malformations in human neurospheres, brain organoids.»

In 1999 the FDA approved the material for clinical use, and soon surgeons across the nation began using it on patients to repair rotator cuffs, abdominal hernias, and esophageal reflux damage, and even to induce the regrowth of the outer lining of the brain.

Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a compound that targets the APOE protein in the brains of mice and protects against damage induced by the Alzheimer's protein amyloid beta.

Down the road, such findings could help doctors who desperately want to help patients without rolling the dice on something as serious haloperidol - induced permanent brain damage.

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.

Our study represents another piece in the puzzle, since we provide an explanation for the protective biochemical changes induced by physical exercise that prevent the brain from being damaged during stress,» says Mia Lindskog, researcher at the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

Using their model, the team has shown that induced neural stem cells, or iNSCs, can replace stroke - damaged brain tissue and stimulate neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to naturally repair itself.

The other half were treated with induced hypothermia to try to protect the brain from further damage caused by swelling.

The final aim of this grant is to examine how the response of microglia to brain damage (i.e., demyelination induced by treatment with cuprizone) is altered when the APOE gene is deleted.

Brain damage and behavioural disorders in fish induced by plastic nanoparticles delivered through the food chain by Karin Mattsson, Elyse V. Johnson, Anders Malmendal, Sara Linse, Lars - Anders Hansson & Tommy Cedervall.

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.

While it's not clear what causes it, «it could be damage done to the body by the bacteria itself, or it could even be neurotransmitter changes in the brain induced by the prior Lyme disease,» Dr. Fallon says.

It has beneficial effects on neurons, repairing them from damage induced by some states such as high blood sugar, and can also be used as a brain booster due to its effects at increasing alertness, mitochondrial capacity, and neuron activity.

Ketogenic diets have a long history of efficacy for disorders of the CNS, most notably epilepsy.46, 47 KBs are more efficient than glucose and induce less oxidative damage.47 Additionally, KBs are brought into the brain by monocarboxylate transporters — independently of glucose and insulin — so their uptake is not hindered when insulin signaling fails.51

As if that were not challenge enough for a brain that is already struggling to metabolize fuel efficiently, AGEs themselves have been shown to be neurotoxic, likely by inducing apoptosis (cell death) and lipid peroxidation — a process that is especially damaging to cells whose membranes are particularly rich in PUFAs.10, 33

Interestingly, the protective effect of intermittent fasting against induced excitotoxic brain damage has been demonstrated in mice despite no reduction in calorie intake or weight loss.

Its unifying character is that some combination of causal factors induces «metabolic damage,» such as leptin resistance, in a variety of organs, including the brain.

Rhonda Patrick, PHD writes «cold exposures increase cold shock proteins including one in the brain that repairs damaged synapses and in muscle prevents atrophy, how a cold - induced catecholamine lowers inflammation and pain by decreasing the levels of 3 inflammatory mediators...» [10] This is very, very interesting stuff and it's grounded in evolutionary science.

Mice which had ingested epicatechin, a compound found in dark chocolate, suffered significantly less brain damage after undergoing induced stroke than mice which had not been given this compound.

Rhonda Patrick, PHD writes «cold exposures increase cold shock proteins including one in the brain that repairs damaged synapses and in muscle prevents atrophy, how cold - induced norepinephrine lowers inflammation and pain by decreasing the levels of 3 inflammatory mediators...» * [9] This is very, very interesting stuff and it's grounded in evolutionary science.

It also reduces oxidative stress and damage, lowers cholesterol, reduces inflammatory signaling molecules, promotes cleanup and induces protective mechanisms within the brain.

Lithium also may protect the brain against damage from excitotoxins, compounds that in excess can induce nerve damage.

One of his earliest studies revealed that alternate - day feeding made the rats» brains resistant to toxins that induce cellular damage akin to the kind cells endure as they age.

The high - sugar diet induced a host of other problems, including liver damage and brain inflammation.

Apparently in the first book the kid he beat up (inducing permanent brain damage of all things) joins him in the wilderness and they become best friends.

Several candidate mechanisms of CRCI have been proposed, including inflammation and cytokine dysregulation, chemotherapy - induced epigenetic changes, blood — brain barrier disruption, hormone deficiencies, oxidative DNA damage and shortened telomere length, and genetic susceptibility.21 — 26 However, the heterogeneity and design limitations within the emerging body of evidence have led to recommendations for harmonising study methodologies and moving towards multisite, longitudinal research.3 27 Such approaches would support the demonstration of robust relationships between measurable biological processes and cognitive outcomes.