Sentences with phrase «of brain disease»

In moving toward its vision, the American Brain Foundation's goal is to reduce the prevalence of brain disease 50 percent by 2040.

Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopath This is a white matter of the brain disease caused by a virus infection.

If you see evidence of brain disease, get the dog to the vet as soon as possible.

Going against the «grain,» Dr. Perlmutter asserts: «The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary... to a large extent numerous neurological afflictions often reflect the mistake of consuming too many carbs and too few healthy fats.»

Without progranulin, the microglia are unrestricted — and induce prolonged and excessive inflammation that leads to neuron damage — and can contribute to the vast array of symptoms that afflict sufferers FTD and other fatal forms of brain disease.

Researchers have taken a key step towards recovering specific brain functions in sufferers of brain disease and injuries by successfully restoring the decision - making processes in monkeys.

He thought about a previous patient, a battered woman whose autopsy had shown signs of brain disease.

The up - and - coming professional football player Chris Borland, of the San Francisco 49ers, is now leaving the sport out of concern that a career in football would increase his risk of brain disease.

Another theory as to why hits to the head increase the risk of brain disease points to the body's immune system as the culprit.

Researchers have also uncovered snippets of DNA that seem to halt the development of the brain disease, even in people whose genes put them at higher risk.

«The idea they can clean up brain debris has been well established in studies of brain disease,» says Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital.

The fact that violence can be a symptom of brain disease shows not that free will is an illusion, but that free will can be injured just like other human abilities.

Raising further doubt, a team led by Douglas Galasko, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego, twice tried to find BMAA in Chamorros and North Americans who died of brain disease — and both times came up empty - handed, though using a different method of chemical identification than the one employed by Cox and the Miami team.

As well as revealing step by step how disease and infection can aggravate and accelerate the early stages of Alzheimer's, Perry and his colleague Clive Holmes have begun a pioneering trial in 40 people to see if a drug that acts to dampen inflammation in the body can help delay the progress of the brain disease.

Scientists still don't understand many of the most essential functions of the brain, like memory or the fundamentals of brain disease and treatment.

Her research focuses on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a class of brain diseases that includes «mad cow disease» and that can be transmitted by injecting or ingesting infectious tissue.

This advance opens the doors to not only new therapies for a myriad of brain diseases, but new ways of delivering therapies as well.»

The proteins protect the brain, but also prevent the treatment of brain diseases:

«It is important to the treatment of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's that we find a way of circumventing the brain's effective defence.

Previous research using the combination of EEGs and deep learning, was on sleep analysis, responds to music or early detection of brain diseases.

A successful joint collaboration between researchers at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem and the startup company TyrNovo may lead to a potential treatment of brain diseases.

The most common genetic cause of the brain diseases frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a mutation in the C9orf72 gene.

This new result could lead to a breakthrough in the way nanoparticles are used in the treatment and diagnosis of brain diseases,» explained the co-investigator, Hélène Girouard.

Researchers at the University of Toronto say a sleep disorder that causes people to act out their dreams is the best current predictor of brain diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Sergiu P. Pasca, 36, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, uses models of the human brain — created through cellular reprogramming technology — to explore the biological underpinnings of brain diseases like autism.

Researchers have developed a technique using magnetic nanoparticles that opens the door to allow therapeutic molecules to cross the blood - brain barrier, thereby opening the door to new treatments and diagnosis of brain diseases.

Such changes in neuronal function are likely to play important roles in all normal physiological processes in the brain and are critical for development of a variety of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, drug dependence and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

This will lead to a better understanding of brain function and hopefully also to a better understanding of brain diseases, such as brain cancer.

«Our collaboration with Monell will expand the Brain Health Registry to provide information concerning the association of a number of brain diseases, especially Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, with a reduced ability to detect odors,» said Michael W. Weiner, MD, founder and Principal Investigator of the Brain Health Registry, and Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.

Recently, among surface coatings there is an increasing interest in using carbohydrates as biomimetic functional molecules on the surface of nanoparticles [2], [6]- [8] for the diagnosis and treatment, for instance, of brain diseases like glioma and stroke [9], [10].

Curcumin boosts brain - derived neurotrophic factor, linked to improved brain function and a lower risk of brain diseases

So the brain is happily deriving energy from ketones — sure, but why would this be protective against such a variety of brain diseases?

He will discuss the generation of, and cutting edge treatments for, many of the brain diseases that are greatly affecting our society, and that he sees daily at his Chiropractic Neurology Center: strokes, autoimmune diseases, Basal Ganglia disorders, Dementia and Alzheimer's.

It provides beautiful color to the soup and can have benefits such as lowering the risk of heart disease, improving brain function, lowering risk of brain diseases and preventing cancer.

Neuroplasticity plays a significant functional and ameliorative role across a wide spectrum of brain diseases as well as in normal ageing and health.

Not exact matches

This type of automated, long - term delivery system could make it easier to treat everything from brain diseases to diabetes.

Study after study overwhelmingly suggests that a quick cat nap (even 10 minutes helps) can boost brain activity, enhance concentration, support creativity and even reduce the risk of disease.

According to a longitudinal study, those with a brain unaffected by Alzheimer's spend more time looking at pictures they haven't seen before whereas all of those who spent an equal amount of time looking at both images developed the disease.

«When your brain is firing off these synapses of anger, you're weakening your immune system; you're raising your blood pressure, increasing your risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, and a plethora of other negative ailments,» he says.

Though not all «brain training» games and puzzles will improve your IQ, they will keep your mind healthy, and could even mitigate the onset of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

BenevolentAI created a bioscience machine «brain» that uses algorithms and data to locate the cause of diseases and generate insights into them that humans otherwise couldn't.

In Walsh's case, the disease attacked her brain, setting off a chain reaction of symptoms that mimicked those of other mental illnesses like depression and schizophrenia.

Autoimmune conditions that affect the brain only represent a fraction of all autoimmune diseases.

Studies have shown that getting between 7 - 9 hours of sleep per night relieves stress, reduces the risk of chronic diseases and even helps muscles and the brain repair and restore proper function.

As the Alzheimer's Association notes, until recently, «clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 % of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change targeted by the experimental drug.»

Research has determined that years — even decades — before a person might start showing symptoms, amyloid beta deposits in the brain that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease can start to accumulate.

Unlike some of the promising treatments that have failed in 2017 that deal with the so - called «amyloid hypothesis» (the treatments target amyloid beta deposits in the brain that accumulate in people with Alzheimer's disease), approaches that try to prevent nerve cells from dying wouldn't have any impact on that buildup.

«Beyond giving us so much data to explore, being able to show that depression is a brain disease, that there is biology associated with it, I think that's really critical,» Roy Perlis, the director of the Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital, told Business Insider in 2016.

Though the researcher said there needs to be more research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy sleep appears to play an important role in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role in [Alzheimer's disease] prevention.»

A wealth of recent research, including a new study published this month in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, suggests that any type of exercise that raises your heart rate and gets you moving and sweating for a sustained period of time — known as aerobic exercise — has a significant, overwhelmingly beneficial impact on the brain.