Sentences with phrase «of brain damage in»

Often, doctors struggle in diagnosing carbon monoxide poisoning, as they are trying to identify a cause of brain damage in patients who have not fallen, been in a car accident, or experienced any other traumatic event.

Emergency treatment is the best way to reduce the risk of brain damage in hypoxia cases.

Insufficient iodine is, in fact, considered the most common — yet preventable — cause of brain damage in the world, with 1.6 billion people at risk.

What causes this excessive amount of brain damage in our modern world?

«The hearings were a turning point,» says Julian Bailes, a neurosurgeon in West Virginia who co-authored some of the first studies showing evidence of brain damage in NFL players.

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.

Routine vaccination of babies (with the Hib vaccine) prevents many cases of meningitis, another cause of brain damage in the early months.

Not exact matches

A baby born with brain damage at a hospital in Oahu was confirmed to have been infected by the Zika virus, that state's department of health said.

Of the 399 eligible claims, 124 were deaths and 17 were victims with physical injuries that resulted in quadriplegia, paraplegia, double amputation, permanent brain damage, or pervasive burns.

To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of words.

During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

Every time you multitask you aren't just harming your performance in the moment; you may very well be damaging an area of your brain that's critical to your future success at work.

Many users of legal highs — in the US, UK and elsewhere — have become very sick, sometimes even brain damaged, due to smoking the synthetic marijuana.

One of the clearest pieces of evidence that cannabis can cause lasting damage to the brain came in a 2012 New Zealand study that followed cannabis users over several decades.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

The difficulty in ascertaining whether a potential organ donor is dead was exemplified in a University of Bonn Medical Centre study where two out of 113 who were initially thought to be mortally brain - damaged defied the fatal prognosis and made recoveries.

Moreover, the work contains an extended argument with the «classical» neurology of Hughlings Jackson and Kurt Goldstein, who, according to Sacks, maintained that «the mind, man's glory, lies wholly in the abstract and categorical, and the effect of brain damage... is to cast him out of this high realm into the almost subhuman swamplands of the concrete.»

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...!

Some would insist that each life is valuable, others might question whether some children with very severe brain damage are in any real sense capable of human life.

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it will make you wonder if there is a spirit beyond our bodies,,, or all of it is in the brain itself... I see how hard it is for stroke victims to return to their old self after the brain has been damaged... and I wondered sometimes if the person I knew was even in the body anymore... It is a question I do not have a firm answer for... but I like to think the spirit exists and just can not use the brain anymore... it is like a computer interface that is damaged and the body has failed to repair itself... Our brains can reroute data, or rebuild some damage..

when they warmed his body and gave him oxygen on the way to the hospital he woke up, everyone screamed it's a miracle... then science had to step in and explain it wasn't a miracle, the temperature of the water lowered his core temperature so low that his body required less oxygen, thus he didn't recieve enough brain damage to cease funtioning.

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i have been very affected by the control of the amygdala, so it is extra important that i call my fears and adrenalin release in to question... others may be less aware of how the brain works and leads them because they have not experienced the damaging effects of fight or flight quite so dibilitatingly... as i understand it, it drives us all to some degree.

Wow, one more crappy long boring piece of fiction... that's quite the imagination you have Austin - did you by chance damage your brain in the crash?

Sadly, in the case of Deanna Laney, she religiously murdered two of her children, Luke age six and Joshua age eight, and had caused severe brain damage to 14 month old Aaron.

Sadly, in the case of Deanna Laney, she religiously mur * dered two of her children, Luke age six and Joshua age eight, and had caused severe brain damage to 14 month old Aaron.

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.

Degenerative diseases of the brain that erode personality, and cases where brain damage causes sudden changes in character, are both only possible if character itself is biological.

got drunk on night, lost control of his car, drove in to a church (could have killed someone), asked for forgiveness and now anything he does can't be considered a sin or bad b / c he has an imaginary friend to defend him... in reality Austin received brain damage during his drunken rampage and no longer is able to use rational thought

And as for people in PVS, we will never know what their damaged brains are capable of relearning unless we are willing to nurture them.

Unfortunately, like most water - soluble vitamins, Vitamin B12 is stored in the liver, kidneys & other tissues & a deficiency may not show up for several years, which is a huge concern because after about 7 years of B12 deficiency there can be irreversible brain damage.

Iodine deficiency is also the most common cause of preventable brain damage in the world.

The years of abuse in the boxing ring had left him brain damaged, excess fluid oozing onto the surface of his brain.

Emmert has been a brain - damaged, sputtering fartcloud of a bureaucrat in his tenure at the NCAA, but so was Myles Brand, a perfectly intelligent human being who could not define what the NCAA did in Congressional hearings.

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.

I was in town reporting on brain damage in fighters, and had met a fellow at a kickboxing fight earlier in the week who mentioned that he could take me to The Money Team mecca itself, and I, like a brawler capitalizing on opportunity in the midst of bare - knuckle madness, jumped at the chance.

Still, the most critical issue is potential brain damage, and before all this information became available (despite the best efforts of the NCAA and NFL) in the past few years, I would have most likely allowed my son (if I had had one) to play football.

«The injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

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.

I'd also like to add, and this is no laughing matter, that members of the public get brain damage and have never headed a ball in their life

While extremely bad jaundice can cause brain damage, how many of you (who don't work in NICU, where you see the worst cases every day) have ever met a mom or baby who was brain - damaged by jaundice?

Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

We do know that most concussions resolve, that we should expect concussions to resolve, and that there are plenty of athletes who have had multiple concussions who do not have the emotional disturbance, brain damage, and suicidality that may be portrayed in the media

«This worry has become irrational to the point that they are afraid to engage in normal activities for fear of further brain damage, even when it is clear to us that they have recovered.

«For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs,» said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

The high percentage of athletes reporting that they continued to play despite experiencing concussion symptoms, while similar to the rates reported in other studies, is concerning, as the failure to diagnose concussions in athletes can lead to further damage to the brain before full recovery, expose them to the cumulative effects of injuries and increased risk of second impact syndrome.

«Our hope is that this bill will reduce the risk of long - term damage for student athletes who suffer concussions or other brain - related trauma while participating in sports.»

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.

When bilirubin, a substance in the blood of newborns, builds up and is left untreated, it can migrate into the brain causing permanent damage.