Sentences with phrase «irreversible damage to nerve»

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

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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.

One study conducted in 2014 concluded that smokers with Graves» disease were more likely to experience rapid eye deterioration, including the development of double vision, the constriction of eye movement, and irreversible optic nerve damage.

The result was sometimes irreversible nerve damage to the extremities due to copper depletion.

Specialist Veterinary attention must be found immediately, otherwise the damage to the optic nerve becomes irreversible.