Sentences with phrase «injury improved brain function»

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

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A small neuroprotective molecule improves motor function after brain injury in mice and macaques.
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.
These processes often break down as a result of aging, neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's disease), or traumatic brain injury, and the new findings provide a roadmap to examine strategies to improve these functions.
Kessler Foundation Research Center focuses on improving function and quality of life for persons with injuries of the spinal cord and brain, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and other chronic neurological conditions.
Research focuses on improving function and quality of life for persons with injuries of the spinal cord and brain, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and other chronic neurological conditions.
«Our research shows that in populations with traumatic brain injury and multiple sclerosis, the modified Story Memory Technique is effective for improving new learning and memory across three realms of functioning: objective behavior, brain functioning, and everyday life,» explained Dr. Chiaravalloti.
Merzenich is now applying his basic research findings to the development and testing of new tools for improving brain function in people with a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia, or following brain injury.
Transplantation of neural cells derived from retinoic acid - treated cynomolgus monkey embryonic stem cells successfully improved motor function of hemiplegic mice with experimental brain injury.
Manual biofeedback combines manual muscle testing with the basic physiological biofeedback model for a useful clinical therapy that can help improve poor muscle function due to brain, spinal cord and local muscle injury.
There is INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE [2,3,5] abut the effectiveness of creatine in the prevention or treatment of age related muscle loss, bipolar disorder, breathing problems during sleeping (apnea) in infants, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), coronary artery disease, dehydration, depression, dermatomyositis, diabetes mellitus type 2, fibromyalgia, heart attack, hereditary motor sensory neuropathy, high cholesterol, HIV / AIDS - related muscle wasting, Huntington's disease, McArdle disease, mitochondrial myopathies, multiple sclerosis, muscle cramps, orthostatic hypotension, osteoarthritis, Parkinson's disease [8], Rett syndrome, polymyositis, rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia, skin aging, traumatic brain injury or vision loss due to gyrate atrophy of the retina or in improving bone density, memory or cognitive function.
Because of the effective use of the ketogenic diet in reducing seizures (see above), it has been suggested that it may also improve the clinical status in brain injury, especially by reducing the incidence of long - term consequences, such as epilepsy.79 Positive effects of a ketogenic diet have also been reported in reducing the cortical contusion volume in an age - dependent manner in an animal model of cortical injury, which is related to the maturation - dependent variability in brain ketone metabolism.92 These findings were also supported by the demonstration that a ketogenic diet reduced post-traumatic cognitive and motor function impairment, at least in a rat model.93
A multidisciplinary community based rehabilitation programme improved social functioning in severe traumatic brain injury
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