Sentences with phrase «injuries damage regions»

Brain injuries damage regions of the brain and this damage can extend post-injury.

Not exact matches

QUITO (Reuters)- Two earthquakes struck Ecuador's coast on Wednesday, causing minor injuries and light damage in the same region where a magnitude 7.8 tremor killed more than 650 people last month.

In fact, the authors report in Science this week that damage to that region is 136 times more likely to result in a «disruption of smoking addiction» — defined as the ability to quit easily without relapse — than injury to other parts of the brain.

But the precuneus, a region in the cerebral cortex along the brain's midline, isn't usually damaged by strokes or head injuries, so scientists weren't sure what the region did.

The implant exploits the fact that even when the neural connection between a brain region and the muscles it controls is severed or damaged by, say, a stroke or spinal injury, the controlling neurons remain active.

The recent earthquake swarm, beginning on March 24 and climaxed by a 4.9 magnitude tremor on Saturday, has produced no reports of injuries or severe damage but has rattled nerves in a region where Idaho's most powerful known quake, measured at 6.9, killed two children in 1983.

If the injury is severe, visit your Doctor or local hospital to get the neck region fully assessed for injuries such as fractures or nerve damage.

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A region in an organ or tissue that has suffered damage through injury or disease, such as a wound, ulcer, abscess, tumor, etc..

The National Institute of Health has shown if one anatomical region of a person's body is damaged, it is possible they will have multiple anatomical injuries.

Most infant spinal cord injuries happen in the neck region, and the higher up along the spinal cord the injury occurs, the more serious the damage.

Mike handles high value claims for cerebral palsy and other complex brain injury cases where damages are likely to be in the region of up to # 10 million.

A person's sense of smell is typically related to damage to the nasal passages, a shearing injury to the olfactory nerve or an injury to the front temporal regions of the brain.

A medical expert testified that the head injury, including damage to the right frontal lobe and left parieto - occipital region of the brain was caused by the ornament falling on his head.

Injuries to the region often cause serious nerve damage that can be difficult to detect.

The paralysis is sometimes the result of a traumatic brain injury that damages the myelin sheath of the nerve cells; locked - in syndrome is caused by damage to the brain's vertical pons, a region that controls voluntary movement.