Sentences with phrase «of brain damage from»

It may have trouble walking around, either due to the enlarged abdomen and weak leg muscles, or as a result of brain damage from a growing pituitary tumor.

What manifests as ADHD may really be complications of brain damage from exposure to alcohol while in the womb.

It's only done if a baby is showing signs of brain damage from too much bilirubin.

Not exact matches

You would have to be suffering from some sort of brain damage to be human and not realize this.

This young boy suffered severe brain damage from hitting a rock head first and will have to wear a football helmet and drool cup for the remainder of his life.

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...!

We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurons in our brains.

For White, the problems don't just stem from the risk of brain damage, it's the distorted message about things like masculinity that the NFL sends to fans and young players.

Liston also fabricated quaint metaphors to describe phenomena ranging from brain damage to the effects of his jab: «The middle of a fighter's forehead is like a dog's tail.

Come to think of it — maybe my baby IS brain damaged from the sleep training!

The rear facing position is safest because, if you are hit from behind and your child is facing forward, the severity of whip lash can be brain damaging, now if there legs hang over the seat, and they are rear facing they have the risk of breaking a leg, but there brain and stem will still be intact.

Homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage in the lowest risk women receiving care from highly trained midwives (often two) and liberal access to transfer.

Purposeful «heading» of a soccer ball does not appear to result in either short - or long - term brain damages, says two studies, one from 2010 and another from 2012, but experts still think reducing the risk of potential injury from heading the soccer ball is a good idea.

The cost for a CPM attended delivery may be cheaper, but when you add the cost for hospital transfers, NICU stays, and handicapped infants suffering brain damage from lack of oxygen in childbirth, it no longer seems like a cost effective alternative.

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.

He isn't afraid of the baby dying or having brain damage from hypoxia or ending up with paralysis from a prolonged and damaging labor and delivery.

While I congratulate the NFL on tackling the issue of its players» health and safety head on, there is no denying the fact that we are never going to see a non-violent game of football, or one from which the risk of permanent brain damage is completely eliminated (the touching pre-game feature on former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason's battle with ALS was proof enough of that).

Perhaps most concerning, four of the Purdue studies found that damage to the brain from RHI persisted after the football season was over, as did a 2014 study by Bazarian and his URMC colleagues, [23] which found changes in brain white matter in a small group of college football players which persisted six months after the season was over.

If you think it's ethical, do you think it's ethical of the doctor to withhold the same recommendation from the next woman with the same indication, or would it be ethical for him to go two times a day, every day, to the home of the woman who turned out to have needed the intervention to help her with the wheelchair of her brain - damaged child for the next 30 years?

The parents are always upset with US as they view it as us intervening and ruining their birth experience (when on head cooling they often can't hold, breastfeed, and do all the other fun and crunchy things they wanted to do after delivery), instead of seeing it as us trying to save their child from a lifetime of brain damage.

Stuebe in the past has pushed back against Fed Is Best's campaign for all parents to be warned about rare brain damage risks that can result from insufficient breast milk supply, writing that it could threaten the effort to normalize exclusive breastfeeding and unnecessarily expose newborns to supplemental formula feeding, which could jeopardize the establishment of a consistent breastfeeding routine.

The measure, which limits practices with full - on tackling during the playing season and prohibits them during most of the off - season, comes amid growing concern nationwide over brain damage that can result from concussions among student as well as professional athletes.

There is a kind of brain damage that results from genetics or birth trauma.

It's supposed to be one of the major highlights of the parliamentary year, and if you suffer from severe brain damage or pronounced spiritual decline then that may be true.

Syracuse native and Syracuse University alumna Megyn Kelly says she may leave Fox News after the 2016 election, explaining: «(T) here's a lot of brain damage that comes from the job.»

Mr. Maynard sustained serious brain damage in a fall from an exterior staircase at his house in the summer of 2014.

However, one third of cases are triggered by damage to the brain from causes such as head injury, stroke, tumours or infection.

The damaging theatrics of drama queens may spring from defects etched in the brain.

Damasio soon discovered other people with damage in the same regions of the brain suffering from the same problem.

That might mean patients who suffer traumatic brain injury not only suffer from the physical damage of the blow to the head but also from the resulting inflammatory response, especially within the first 24 hours.

In 2002 ethnobotanist Paul Cox from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii, and neurologist Oliver Sacks from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City introduced a shocking theory about how Chamorros might be ingesting enough BMAA to damage neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

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.

ALTHOUGH A BRAIN INJURY from a car accident or a collision during a football game often seems to cause a sudden change to cognitive ability years later, this change does not just appear out of the blue — the damage has been building up slowly, unnoticed, over time.

The well - known short - term effects of THC, which include cognitive and motor impairments, don't seem to impart any long - term damage to adult brains, said Igor Grant from the University of California, San Diego.

We are learning things from the brain sciences that might eventually help us repair damaged brains and understand mental illness, the authors say, but the frenzied, money - and - media - driven application of neuroscience from «neuroeducation» to «neuroeconomics» is premature.

Until now, microglia have been dismissed as simple immune cells that do little more than protect brain cells from damage and tidy up in the aftermath of disease.

Arising from the abnormal buildup of a protein known as alpha - synuclein in the brain, such conditions damage the nerves that control blood pressure and heart rate.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

Brains of people who died from various diseases caused by tangled tau had more dead and damaged cells if the people carried APOE4.

Colvin points out that the SMU researchers didn't isolate nanocrystals from the brains of fish to show that they were in fact the cause of the 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.

Electronic fetal monitoring is often used during labour to detect unborn babies at risk of brain damage (neonatal encephalopathy) from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia).

«It could even be used in general in emergency medical care to diagnose brain damage from concussions regardless of how they happened.»

Song says the amyloid - beta traveled from the genetically - modified mice to the brains of their normal partners, where it accumulated and began to inflict damage.

Microglia are present throughout the brain and spinal cord, are constantly monitoring their environment, and can be switched on or activated to perform different functions such as control inflammation, destroy pathogens, clean up the debris from dead or damaged cells, and seal off the site of an injury.

Stem cells hold tremendous promise for medicine; their ability to metamorphose into other kinds of cells make them useful for repairing injuries — from heart attacks to brain damage.

Unknown damage Although researchers are still parsing out how different areas of the brain contribute to normal function, neuroscience has evolved a long way from the days of lobotomies to stave off seizures.

Exposure to high levels of mercury, often from consumption of fish and other seafood, can damage developing brains, reducing children's IQs.

In examining autopsy samples from MS patients, the researchers detected an abundance of amyloids in brain lesions and damaged neurons, the hallmarks of the disease.

But this remarkable therapeutic benefit isn't limited to MS. Previous research in animal models that mimic other diseases suggest that certain forms of amyloids can ease damage from strokes, traumatic brain injuries and even heart attacks.