Sentences with phrase «of brain damage on»

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.

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Amid reports of the damage brain drain inflicts on the economy, Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, Wednesday introduced the Start - up Visa Act, which would open up the U.S. to immigrant entrepreneurs.

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.

David Suzuki calls economists brain damaged while grossly misrepresenting and denigrating the growing group of environmental economists who put a price on climate change, solution and a host of other extrenalities.

If an addiction to alcohol is superimposed on severe mental illness — a psychosis of the schizophrenic, manic - depressive or chronic brain - damage types — it is essential to get the alcoholic to a psychiatrist.

His book, Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain (IVP) was one of the first academically backed works to suggest that pornography could have a damaging effect on consumers.

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.

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.

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

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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.

However, astoundingly the brain - damaged 49» ers decide they want to trade their 2nd round 27th pick down 3 spots for the 30th pick and on top of that they'll give you their 3rd round 6th pick for the privilege.

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.

Lead consumption is linked to behavioral problems and lower IQs in children because of the damage it inflicts on the developing brain.

He had to stay in NICU for a while and later on he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as his brain was damaged (lack of oxygen in - utero).

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).

Her baby, according to her profile, was born on March 15, so the reality of the brain damage can't be known yet.

Best stats we have on home birth in the US show a 3 - 8 x increase in the risk of death, and an 18x increase in the risk of brain damage.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

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).

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

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.

Feeding babies on this unnutritious product for any period of time could cause grave and irreversible health problems, including brain damage and death.

Best to avoid the anti-fertility chemicals in the bug sprays on our fruits and veggies... my advice is to buy non-GMO and Organic — real fruit and veggies; not laboratory - made, and void of brain - damaging, cancer - causing, and fertility - damaging pesticides.

I've always believed anyone can deliver a baby during a «normal» birth; but when seconds are all you have before brain damage or death occurs because of an «abnormal» delivery, why would you want to waste those seconds waiting on an ambulance?

The main artery at the back of his neck was damaged during the birth which caused a fatal brain haemorrhage, probably due to the nursing staff wanting me to deliver before the night shift came on duty and their intervention caused the injury to the neck area.

Personally, I am not comfortable leaving my children to cry on their own for any length of time, but I do recognize that there aren't specific scientific studies saying that leaving a baby to cry for 5 or 10 minutes would cause damage to their brains.

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.

Football might be synonymous with impact, but such technology combined with the measures and changes being passed throughout the country will decrease the risk of serious, perhaps permanent, brain damage to athletes while enabling them to keep on playing the sport they love.

Baby center, you should name a specific research on the fact of febrile seisures are not necessarily caused by fever and that is not damaging the brain.

During childbirth, the flexibility of the sutures allows the bones to overlap so the baby's head can pass through the birth canal without pressing on and damaging their brain.

Both of them fell on the concrete floor with Samuel suffering brain damage and dying on the spot.

Also at 11 a.m., Sen. Tony Avella holds a press conference with Helen Kim, Christine Colligan and members of the Korean community to demand that the Montefiore Hospital release information on their yearlong investigation into the assault on Seong Soo Kim that resulted in severe brain damage, Montefiore Hospital, Moses Campus, 111 E. 210th St., the Bronx.

The BHA has made its comments in light of a new legal case launched by Tony Nicklinson which seeks clarity in the law on murder and assisted dying, and ahead of an appeal later today in the case of Frances Inglis, who was given a life sentence earlier this year after being found guilty of murder after giving her permanently brain - damaged son a lethal heroin overdose.

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:

Under this induced deep hypothermia, surgeons are able to briefly stop the heart while performing procedures on the heart or large vessels close to the heart without increasing the risk of permanent brain damage.

For instance, recent research has shed light on a group of chemicals in the brain that naturally dampen the damaging effects of prolonged exposure to stress hormones.

A stroke on the left side of the brain often damages important language - processing areas.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

Such movement makes the brain bump into the interior of the skull at the point of impact, as well as on the opposite side of the skull, resulting in contusions (bruises) that damage two sites in the brain, called the coup and contrecoup injuries.

Based on MRI scans, the researchers attribute the seizures to damaged inhibitory fibers on the right side of the man's central parietal cortex, a brain region near the crown of the head.

Dirk Keene, a neuropathologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who is working with McKee on another project to quantify the pathological changes in CTE, notes that the fact that men with damaged brains developed symptoms does not prove that the brain pathology caused the symptoms.

In 1999 the FDA approved the material for clinical use, and soon surgeons across the nation began using it on patients to repair rotator cuffs, abdominal hernias, and esophageal reflux damage, and even to induce the regrowth of the outer lining of the brain.

Together with his colleagues, he turned to a brain - damaged patient called Roger who had suffered damage to the insula and ACC on both sides of the brain after suffering a serious bout of hepatic encephalitis.

Laureys's team found that zolpidem had no significant effect on any of 60 patients with brain damage (Functional Neurology, in press).

In this case, the team used a variant called ipsilesional anodal tDCS, where a positive (anodal) current is applied on the side of the brain where damage has occurred.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

«Because our investigations on the post-stroke microvascular alterations, including BSCB damage, have just begun, many questions remain,» said senior author Dr. Cesario Borlongan, professor and director of the USF Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair.

Some people who are blind because of brain damage have «blindsight»: an extraordinary ability to react to emotions on faces and even navigate around obstacles without knowing they can see anything

Of those who venture into the skull, about half restrict themselves to repairing blood - vessel damage on the brain's surface.