Sentences with phrase «occurs after a head injury»

While the regenerative capability of brain cells, in the hippocampus — the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory — slows down as part of the aging process, the Rutgers scientists determined that the process that occurred after a head injury was related to injury and not age.

It involves the loss of memory of anything that occurred before the event that triggered the amnesia, and often occurs after a head injury.

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Concussion and Sports Related Head Injury: Code 280.13 C requires the Iowa high school athletic association and the Iowa girls high school athletic union to work together to distribute the CDC guidelines and other information to inform and educate coaches, students, and parents and guardians of students of the risks, signs, symptoms, and behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain injury, including the danger of continuing to play after suffering a concussion or brain injury and their responsibility to report such signs, symptoms, and behaviors if they occur.

Concussions are traumatic injuries to the brain that occur after a blow to the head or body.

Published in the March 2016 issue of American Journal of Pathology, this Georgetown study, the first of its kind, modeled repeated mild head trauma to investigate brain damage that occurs after such an injury.

Although concussions most frequently occur in sports injuries, they can happen after any fall or blow to the head or body that shakes the brain, as in Clinton's case.

A five - year old child with a head injury after cutting their head on a single entrance gate in a school; a three - year old hospitalised and nearly blinded after a gate in a park swung back and hit him in the head; a six - year old child losing part of his thumb after it was crushed in the hinge of a playground gate — these are just some examples of the injuries that can occur with a badly installed or poorly maintained manual gate.

Although her main emphasis throughout her career as a veterinarian has been small animal general medicine and surgery, prior to veterinary school she spent three years as a research associate in the department of (human) neurosurgery at th Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia investigating the biochemical changes that occur in the brain after severe head injury.

To remind readers, the suit is based on the allegation that the NFL wrongly concealed the fact that brain injury would occur after multiple head injuries, writes the Inquirer.