Sentences with phrase «known brain lesions»

Psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and depression are more mysterious, he adds, because there are no known brain lesions scientists can ascribe to those conditions.

Not exact matches

The lesson is that human behavior is complex and a brain lesion is neither necessary nor sufficient for criminal behavior: after all, there are nearly 700,000 people living with brain tumors in the US and approximately 800,000 people have strokes every year, but the known cases leading to criminal behavior number in the dozens.

A recent study contains the first systematic review of 17 known cases where criminal behavior was preceded by the onset of a brain lesion.

Leading the work, Dr Nikos Evangelou, said: «We already knew that large research MRI scanners could detect the proportion of lesions with a vein in the brain's white matter, but these scanners are not clinically available.

They have used a clinical MRI scanner of the type all neuroscience centres have to carry out a special type of scan called a T2 - weighted imaging process which is able to reveal lesions in the brain's white matter that are centred on a vein — a known indicator of MS.

So we wanted to find out whether a single brain scan in an NHS hospital scanner could also be effective in distinguishing between patients known to have MS and patients known to have non-MS brain lesions.

It could increase the aggregation of molecules known to form lesions in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

Doctors have known for some time that the confusion and memory loss caused by the brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's can also be caused by other types of brain changes, such as tissue damage stemming from strokes.

Now if we're dealing with people that have had TIAs, you know, transient ischemic attacks, strokes, brain trauma, car accident issues, football, sports - related injuries — yeah, it's very possible that the underlying issue is emanating from the brain and you may have to see a skilled chiropractic neurologist and have specific neurological stimulation on the brain, lasers on the brain that are parts of the brain that are inflamed or maybe there's a lesion in the brain because of inflammation.

Fipronil, imidacloprid, methoprene, and permethrin are all considered highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins, teratogens and dermatogens, some of their known side effects are: lesions in the brain, lungs, liver and kidney damage, pulmonary edema, bone marrow ailments, and birth defects.

Secondary Epilepsy (also known as Symptomatic epilepsy is different in that there are consequences of an identifiable brain lesion or other specific cause for the seizures you dog has.

Involuntary seizures are the most well known characteristic of epilepsy, which is often caused by brain malformations or tumors, head trauma and a variety of other diseases that cause lesions on the brain, according to Nancy Meers, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with the Children's Epilepsy Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.

In adults, much of what is known about the organization of language functions in the brain has come from the study of patients with focal brain lesions.