Sentences with phrase «more damaging to brain»

The Institute of Psychiatry at King's college London sent the world of info junkies into a mild panic earlier this year by declaring that e-mail might do more damage to your brain than smoking pot.

Importantly, the highest levels of NfL corresponded with more damage to the brain and poorer scores on movement and reasoning tests.

MSG is also an excitotoxin, and works synergistically with aspartame to create even more damage to your brain cells.

Not exact matches

While more research is needed to determine if multitasking is physically damaging the brain (versus existing brain damage that predisposes people to multitask), it's clear that multitasking has negative effects.

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.

Reality... Sorry to fail you It turned to have been a small internal bleeding in the personality sector of my brain that had left me unconscious for more than three days in hospital... but thanks to mercy of God and prayers of my family I was able to recover with out any damages what so ever... Any way only today I managed to get an internet line to communicate herewith tonight from Amman, Jordan... It is a pleasant weather here cool and rainy wet...!

... you did know that Americans now spend more on drugs known to cause brain damage than they do on nationaal defense, did you not?

Mercury is much more damaging to and harder to remove from the brain than it is from the gut.

He said that he's been putting off facing the hard reality for a long time and that he loves wrestling more than anything else, but he recently took a test that indicated the damage to his brain might be worse than he'd hoped.

Should get a pretty nice payday for that... also Gaethje needs to earn more per fight since he is going to retire with brain damage and CTE and no medical coverage

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Because the brain of the young athlete is still developing, with even subtle damage leading to learning deficits adversely affecting development, and with studies showing younger athletes recover more slowly than adults, a more conservative approach to concussions in children and teens than for older athletes is recommended.

I don't know if we did any «brain damage» but he is more than OK and I'd take whatever P. Leach says about getting your infant to sleep with a grain of salt.

That's more than 5X the rate of 0.4 / 1000 found in a 2009 report on birth in South Australia.In addition, 2 babies suffered hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (brain damage due to lack of oxygen).

I am no by any means suggesting my parenting style is perfect or the only way but forcing independence on an infant before it is ready (and yes the cues are fairly clear when they need more space) is not only unnatural but is being found to be damaging to the brain and has implications for their mental health further down the track (do some googling).

Moderate to severe jaundice however, is more serious as the bilirubin can travel up to the brain, staining the brain, thus resulting in permanent brain damage.

According to a recent article in Daily Mail, Dr. Nils Bergman, of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, says that «Their hearts were also under more stress... Sleeping alone makes it harder for mother and child to bond — and damages the development of the brain, leading to bad behaviour as the child grows up...»

(Babies born at home are significantly more likely to suffer from brain damage than babies born in a hospital.)

Jordan Grafman, one of the study's investigators, and his team found that injured veterans who experienced more RSMEs were more likely to have damage in an area of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

The brain imaging found that, while none of the participants showed abnormalities on a standard MRI, the more advanced DTI revealed that participants with high blood pressure had damage to:

«People who developed diabetes even in old age also were more likely to have areas of brain damage.

These include perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), widely used to make plastics more flexible until its health effects, including lower - than - normal birthweights and brain damage, led U.S. manufacturers to stop using it in 2014.

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.

The finding raised the possibility of harnessing this regenerative capacity to mend damaged brains, which could translate into more effective treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

Brain scans of patients with primary progressive MS showed fewer signs of damage and the patients» ability to walk deteriorated more slowly than in individuals who received a placebo, researchers reported in January in the New England Journal of Medicine.

«In this review, we aimed to highlight a blend of new studies using cutting edge research techniques to investigate brain damage, but also to relate these new studies to original studies, some of which were published more than a century ago,» said lead author Dr. Sara Szczepanski, of the University of California, Berkeley.

You go up there and you seal off the bulge If a patient does not die from a rupture, is he or she more or less certain to suffer lasting brain damage?

Because women are less specialized, their brains seem to be more resilient — they recover faster and more easily from the effects of strokes — and better at compensating if one region is damaged.

Of course, it is possible to inflict catastrophic damage on a system (be it brain or microchip) from which it can not recover, but with more than 100,000 methods of delivery, these microchips could prove to be extremely robust.

He was discussing how the league could donate $ 1 million or more to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, whose discoveries of brain damage commonly associated with boxers in the brains of deceased football players were regularly discredited by the N.F.L.

This promises to make proton therapy an option for thousands more cancer patients by reducing the risks of healthy tissue being damaged during treatment, particularly in vulnerable parts of the body such as the brain, eye and spinal cord.

A mutation in the virus led to more brain cell damage and much smaller brains (right).

A protein in blood can repair age - related damage in the brains and muscles of old mice, returning them to a more youthful state.

When Cramer gave bexarotene to mice with Alzheimer's - like damage, more than half of the beta - amyloid plaques cleared from the brain within 72 hours.

Although Brazil has had more than 4000 suspected cases of microcephaly, it has confirmed only 270 cases of this brain - damaging condition in children born to mothers who had evidence of having been infected with the virus.

Whereas, the case of remotely switching the train's trajectory produced no difference among control and brain - damaged subjects, when it came to actually pushing someone into the train's path, those people with insults to their VMPC were, on average, three times more likely to advocate throwing the man to his certain death for «the good of the many,» as Spock would say.

Mice living in cages with these fabrics for up to six months had more cell damage in their liver and brain than mice who weren't exposed to this third - hand smoke.

To cast more light on the question, a team led by Rosemary Varley at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. administered a variety of tests to three men with brain damage in their language processing centerTo cast more light on the question, a team led by Rosemary Varley at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. administered a variety of tests to three men with brain damage in their language processing centerto three men with brain damage in their language processing centers.

Experts were concerned that patients with early brain tissue damage — which can be difficult for stroke doctors to see — were more likely to suffer a brain bleed if they were treated with alteplase.

The scientists had expected inflammation markers in the CSF to be more robust predictors of AD - related pathology and neuronal damage than those in the blood due to the «blood brain barrier.»

«Infection with influenza virus might leave the brain vulnerable to damage from future infections with new influenza strains,» says Smeyne, adding that this is more likely to happen in young children or during an flu pandemic.

Ultimately, the enhanced understanding of central nervous system organization that has derived from the research of these three scientists may lead to new and more effective ways to repair diseased or damaged circuits embedded in the human brain and spinal cord.

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More connections provide what is called a cognitive reserve and make the brain able to withstand the damage caused by diseases like Alzheimer's for longer than if you have fewer connections.

Moreover, recent data also show that in response to brain damage caused by aging, amyloid deposition, demyelination, and other insults, microglial cells activate several genes, including APOE, in order to more efficiently scavenge and clear tissue debris that are very rich in cholesterol due to the natural composition of the brain, which is mostly made of fats.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).