Sentences with phrase «much damage to his brain»

That fall could have caused who knows how much damage to his brain and / or neck.

Not exact matches

And a soldier that gets hit on the head a lot — even though he may live because he's got his helmet on — he's not going to be much use in battle, and very soon, he will lose his hearing, his sight, his ability to think, and probably will end up with some serious brain damage and maybe die prematurely.

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

As for Tagliabue, his waving off of the concussion issue in the»90s, and the league's turning a blind eye to head injuries for much of his tenure, no doubt damaged his candidacy for joining in Canton the very men at risk for long - term impacts of brain trauma due to the sport.

How many times does he have to get shut off until he realizes that too much brain damage is too much?

They swiftly made moves to bring in a concussion guidelines when that was proved to be the cause of brain damage but the evidence around links to dementia are much less clear.

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.

The boy, Frank Nelson, who suffered brain damage and partial paralysis from the fall, was granted a settlement Monday guaranteeing him a minimum of $ 9.5 million and as much as $ 29.8 million if he lives to be 75.

You can either choose to labor at home and have a much higher chance of being that heartbroken woman outside the NICU for weeks praying desperately that medical technology and a team of specialists will keep your baby alive and as minimally brain damaged as possible, or you can have a higher chance of having a 4 inch scar somewhere nobody will never see.

And if the baby gets exposed to too much mercury, he or she can have brain damage and serious development issues as a result.

Nonetheless, you'll need to keep a close eye on your child during the forty - eight hours after a head injury because it can take that much time for damaged veins to leak and cause swelling in the brain.»

Safe infant sleep therefore begins when your baby is sleeping and developing in your womb, especially as regards how much damage maternal smoke can do to the fetal brain.

So Arthur Baker is celebrating and defending the trashing of a building which was not occupied by the Conservative Party * and the pointless injury to police and students who unfortunately happened to be standing in the way of a thrown brick — does anyone yet know how much brain damage he has suffered?

«The regions in these networks are not talking to each other as much as healthy adults of the same age, even in networks where brain damage didn't occur.

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

UCI's Charles Limoli and colleagues found that exposure to highly energetic charged particles — much like those found in the galactic cosmic rays that will bombard astronauts during extended spaceflights — causes significant long - term brain damage in test rodents, resulting in cognitive impairments and dementia.

By the time a brain MRI was performed, there was often too much damage to save the child.

If we are able to prevent pericytes from dying, it should help restore blood flow in the brain to normal and prevent the ongoing slow damage we see after a stroke which causes so much neurological disability in our patients.»

A few minutes without oxygen may not do too much damage to our muscles but can irreparably harm the brain.

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

According to forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, an autopsy after his death revealed that Waters» brain had suffered so much damage from football injuries that it resembled that of an 85 - year - old man with early stage Alzheimer's disease.

There are a number of reasons why the trials may have failed, Hardy says, including the possibility that the antibody did not have high enough affinity for the particular forms of amyloid that do the most damage in the brain, or that the patients in the trials had already experienced too much brain degeneration to benefit.

Fehlings suggests that brain - machine interfaces could one day be combined with several other treatment strategies — such as stem cells and drugs — to produce much greater overall benefit for people with damaged spinal cords.

But Fabry explains that much of the damage to brain cells occurs after the clot is removed or dissolved by medicine.

But many researchers now think those trials failed because they started too late — after too much irreversible damage had been done to the brain.

The face is cut and bruised by direct impacts, but damage to the brain is caused largely by rotational acceleration of the cerebral cortex around the much smaller midbrain and spinal cord.

In fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nerve.

Boxing and American football are under scrutiny because of head injuries causing long - term damage to the brain, but the situation is much less clear for football where heading is extremely common, but head injuries are less so.

«Compared to conventional neural probes, the much - reduced dimensions of our NET - e probes allow us to implant the devices at previously unattainable high densities without damage to brain tissue,» Wei tells nanotechweb.org.

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).

The problem is that these probes are typically much larger in size than neurons and capillaries (they usually have a cross-sectional area of 103 μm2) and can thus cause significant damage to brain tissue when implanted.

Glaucoma is actually a series of diseases that damage the optic nerve (the nerve that connects the retina of the eye to the brain), often when too much pressure is put on the eye due to fluid buildup.

So instead of making some much needed changes to our food system (such as reverting away from processed foods and promoting more whole foods), a potato is genetically engineered that will not develop as much acrylamide — this way the food industry can continue making chips and French fries cooked in heart -, brain -, and gut - damaging vegetables oils, most of which are also genetically engineered (corn, soy), while pretending — and probably boasting — that they've «done something» to make our foods safer...

If too much caffeine is being chronically absorbed, there is a high likelihood that similar to MSG, it could cause glutamate toxicity and related damage in certain areas of your brain.»

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The nature of Brian's disability is unclear he refers to himself as «brain damaged,» and Larry addresses him much less kindly but he exhibits symptoms consistent with lovable - movie - disabled syndrome.

Wilson's big and bulky play (reportedly trimmed considerably by Tony Kushner, who gets a co-producer credit) owes much to the family dysfunction classics of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, but it also has notes of heightened allegory that fall flat, such as the recurring character of Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson), Troy's brain - damaged brother who keeps barging into the action to utter deranged prophecies.

The family of a 10 - year - old District of Columbia boy who suffered severe brain damage when he fell eight feet onto the asphalt surface of a neighborhood playground four years ago has agreed to a settlement that could bring him as much as $ 15 million.

I learned that T canis and T cati were a much greater threat than I had previously realized, with prevalence rates in dogs of up to 11 percent in the West.2 Knowing that roundworm infections can cause blindness and brain damage in people, and that sero - prevalence rates in the U.S. population are almost 14 percent, 3 I decided to make prevention a priority and documented my recommendations.

May as well just say modern entertainment causes brain damage because social media, too much screen time, TV, multitasking and even porn have been shown to decrease grey matter or cause brain damage.

However, these diversions are most interesting when they take on the form of plentiful boss fights — well - designed battles that test your brain much more than they do your brawn, like one battle in limbo where you play a game of Simon Says with a ghost king to deal damage to him.

You use sunlight or brains — the game's mana equivalent — to play cards with health and damage counters, much like Hearthstone.

If the medical malpractice has rendered the patient paralyzed or with permanent brain damage, a separate expert in the field of life care planning will need to conduct an extensive cost analysis of how much money will be needed to take care of the patient's medical needs for the rest of their life.

Depending on how much brain damage you have sustained, your symptoms can range from mild to severe.

Joe Espo has devoted much of his career to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries, including brain - damaged children in toxic tort cases, in both Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Because of this, motorcycle injuries tend to be much more physically devastating than automobile injures, with brain trauma, second or third degree burns and muscle damage being very real possibilities.

This is much more likely to cause multiple bone fractures, severe traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injuries that result in paralysis, organ damage, and more.

However, a recent study has found that there may be a much simpler way to discover if an infant is on the brink of brain damage as a result of oxygen loss.

For children and teens that have experienced trauma, their brains release too much cortisol (the stress hormone) which actually causes damage to the brain.