Sentences with phrase «of brain diseases»

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.

It can be triggered by a variety of brain diseases, including parasites themselves.

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.

Three of 14 high school players also showed signs of the brain disease, as well as 48 of 53 college players.

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

Given the high inheritance of brain diseases, it is not surprising that tremendous advances are being made.

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.

If the health status of the brain could be indirectly assessed through the eyes, diagnostic screening of brain diseases could become more efficient.

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

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

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.

Can murder really be a symptom of brain disease?

«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.

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

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.

Here, I shall describe recent developments in complex network theory and its application to the study of topological aspects of brain connectivity, including the relation between structural and functional connectivity in models of brain disease.

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.

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

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.

«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.

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.»

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

The goal is to correlate the neurological changes found in Alzheimer's or Parkinson's patients with biomarkers of brain diseases in other organs.

Axon loss occurs in all neurodegenerative diseases, so this discovery could open new pathways to treating or preventing a wide array of brain diseases.

Michaud, who holds the Jeanne and Jean - Louis Lévesque Research Chair on the genetic basis of brain diseases and the Jonathan Bouchard Research Chair on intellectual disability, believes that using whole - genome sequencing in a clinical setting has added value compared to the more conventional approach based on the exome, which represents less than 2 per cent of the genome.

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

The researchers began by performing microarray (gene expression) analyses of postmortem brain cells from the DG of eight people, ages 33 to 88, all of whom were free of brain disease.

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.

May 24, 2013 Multiple research teams unable to confirm high - profile Alzheimer's study Teams of highly respected Alzheimer's researchers failed to replicate what appeared to be breakthrough results for the treatment of this brain disease when they were published last year in the journal Science.

Of course, there can be many other reasons why people might turn to criminality but most neurologists are familiar with patients whose decision - making, value judgments and «moral compass» change following the onset of a brain disease.

«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.

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.

«This technique could be applied to any type of brain disease caused by abnormality in functional connectivity.»

Beyond the well - known role of astrocytes in the control of brain homeostasis, the disruption of mechanisms involved in astrocyte - neuron signalling may result in the appearance of some brain diseases.

But specifically, the Grain Brain diet is for those with a family history of brain disease.

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.»

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.

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

«When my son was diagnosed with the condition, all of a sudden, our family had to be aware of this brain disease that can be debilitating if an attack is severe,» he says.

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.

He completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience investigating the transcriptional effects of psychoactive compounds in animal models of brain disease.

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.

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

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

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.

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].

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