Sentences with phrase «of brain dysfunction»

According to researchers at Bar - Ilan University in Israel led by Prof. Ido Kanter, the theory promises to transform our understanding of brain dysfunction and may lead to advanced, faster, deep - learning algorithms.

US government personnel assigned in Havana, Cuba experienced symptoms similar to that of brain dysfunction associated with concussions.

According to Dr. Carter, the findings suggest that future approaches using clinical assessments to identify the specific type of brain dysfunction contributing to a patient's symptoms may allow a more targeted approach to treatment.

«Far from having a core ADHD profile of brain dysfunction, there was not a single fMRI - measured abnormality that could be found in all three ADHD subgroups,» said Dr. Stevens.

Not exact matches

And beyond issues related to justice, psychologists are only just beginning to grasp the full impact of pornography upon our brains and how those effects are creating sexual and relational dysfunction.

On Internet discussion groups, atheists crowed that religion had been proven to be nothing more than a dysfunction of the brain.

Without those nerve endings and the feedback to the brain, circumcised men suffer premature ejaculation (the # 1 sexual complaint of circumcised American men) and later in life sexual dysfunction and impotence.

It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

Too little food and / or nutrient deficiency can lead to depletion of energy stores, alteration of brain structure, and cardiac dysfunction.

A 2010 study finds no support that purposeful «heading» of a soccer ball leads to either short - term (acute) or cumulative brain damage, such as cognitive dysfunction.

Scientists have linked BPA to a growing list of ailments: cancer, reproductive and cardiovascular system disorders (including damage to the prostate gland, infertility and early puberty), brain and neurological system dysfunctions, behavioral problems, diabetes and obesity.

If others can confirm that deformational plagiocephaly is associated with increased rates of behavioral and learning problems during the school - age years, then the question to be asked is: «Is plagiocephaly an early sign of subtle brain dysfunction or does early brain molding lead to subtle brain dysfunction?»

He said the abuse of Tramadol could result in erectile dysfunction, infertility, brain damage among others.

Researchers hope that clarifying the structure of the brain will help us understand its function and dysfunction.

The latter substance, phosphorylated tau, is responsible for neurofibrillary tangles, which are suspected of contributing to the nerve cell dysfunction in the brain that is responsible for Alzheimer's memory symptoms.

«As a dysfunction in the ability of the brain to regulate the communication of information between brain regions,» Khambhati said, «seizures can be thought of as a traffic flow problem.

In an earlier study published in Nature Medicine, an international team of scientists discovered that the additional copy of chromosome 21 in Down's syndrome reduces the production of SNX27 in the brain and results in synaptic dysfunction.

«We now have a handle on the detailed structure of a complex web of interactions that causes global dysfunction in cells resulting in degeneration of the brain.»

«While dopamine has limited reach in the brain, any dysfunction in glutamate would be expected to have the sort of widespread effects we see in the perceptual disorders associated with schizophrenia,» says Albright.

Similar types of more severe cognitive dysfunction are common in brain cancer patients who have received high - dose, photon - based radiation treatments.

These rare cases of dysfunction allow us to see more clearly that our healthy brains endow us with remarkable capacities to imagine, reason, and act freely.

«The role of IL - 2 in delirium is a new finding and is particularly interesting since it was reported to induce blood - brain barrier dysfunction in animal models,» she added.

The researchers also focused on the two - way nature of the process: how gut dysfunction may worsen brain inflammation and tissue loss after TBI.

Professor Kieran Murphy, Head of Department of Psychiatry, RCSI and Consultant Psychiatrist at Beaumont Hospital, said: «We have shown for the first time that dysfunction of the blood - brain barrier may be an important factor in the development of schizophrenia.

This new study builds on previous research from this group showing that elevated blood levels of SNTF on the day of a mild traumatic brain injury treated in the emergency room predicted those patients who would go on to suffer diffuse axonal injury and long - term cognitive dysfunction.

The findings, published in the Nov. 19 Journal of Neuroscience, could shift researchers» attention from the spinal cord to the brain's motor cortex as the disease's initial point of dysfunction.

The differences in fear sensitivity are likely to be innate, at least in part: dysfunction in the amygdala, a brain area important for processing fear, has previously been linked to psychopathic behaviour, and genetic factors must underlie some of these differences.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

Concussions that lead to lasting brain dysfunction cause SNTF to accumulate in vulnerable long axon tracts of the brain, and its blood elevation is a measure of this diffuse axonal injury.

Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.

This kind of progressive speech impairment is associated with dysfunction in the cortical - basal ganglia brain circuit in both humans and songbirds, so Liu could make assumptions based on this trial about how the human brain circuit changes.

They suffer electrolyte imbalances, vitamin deficiencies, and other symptoms of starvation that can lead to blood clotting dysfunction and brain atrophy.

Developing such biomarkers to assess brain dysfunction will be a challenge, but in the same issue you draw attention to the excellent work of Abdul Hye and his colleagues who are developing a test to detect protein biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in blood (p 5).

«A dysfunction in the brain messenger dopamine is common to both Parkinson's and RLS, and has been hypothesized as a possible cause of migraine for many years.

Although researchers do not fully understand what causes SIDS, the leading hypothesis describes it as a combination of environmental stressors occurring at a critical development period of an infant who has some underlying vulnerability, such as genetic condition or brain dysfunction.

«Results from this study, and the growing literature suggesting that OSA, cognitive decline and AD are related, may mean that age tips the known consequences of OSA from sleepiness, cardiovascular, and metabolic dysfunction to brain impairment,» Dr. Osorio said.

Using this imaging technology, we may be able to capture more precise and objective measurements of olfactory dysfunction and better understand how changes in these sensory neurons relate to overall health and neurodegeneration in the brain.»

«Despite the widespread evidence for interactions between sleep loss and metabolic dysfunction, little is known about the molecular basis of this interaction and how these processes integrate within the brain.»

Published in Nature Neuroscience, the findings suggest that astrocytes — star - shaped cells that are abundant in the brain and support neuronal function — are important regulators of information storage, and their dysfunction might lead to memory decline in disease.

But when the enzymes are over-activated, the brain produces an excessive level of neurotoxic byproducts, causing neuronal dysfunctions that lead to psychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.

It is also suggested that further elucidation of the mechanism linking mastication and brain function can lead to novel treatments and preventive measures for memory / learning dysfunction in the future.

The grand symphonic piece that is consciousness encompasses the foundational contributions of the brain stem, forever hitched to the body, and the wider - than - the - sky imagery created in the cooperation of cerebral cortex and subcortical structures, all harmoniously stitched together, in ceaseless forward motion, interruptible only by sleep, anesthesia, brain dysfunction, or death.

Researchers with Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute have given science a new and unprecedented 3 - D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain — a receptor that allows us to learn and remember, and whose dysfunction is involved in a wide range of neurological diseases and conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and depression.

Liem says this dysfunction triggers the release of more of the hormone that stimulates these cells, but this hormone also stimulates a brain receptor related to pain sensitivity.

In particular, obesity has been linked with dysfunction of the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory and learning, and of the frontal lobe, the part of the brain involved in decision making, problem solving and emotions, suggesting that it might also affect memory; however, evidence for memory impairment in obesity is currently limited.

For example, how genetic programs affect the function of specific cell types, how they vary early or later in life and how dysfunction in these programs might contribute to disease, all of which could help scientists learn more about the fundamental workings of the brain.

Every year, nearly two million people in the United States suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI), the leading cause of brain damage and permanent disabilities that include motor dysfunction, psychological disorders, and memory loss.

With the former it is possible that something similar genetically underlies both ADHD and obesity; Castellanos and his colleagues note that dysfunction in the dopamine pathways of the brain have been found among both people who are obese and those with ADHD.

A better understanding of aberrant brain receptor signaling that leads to nerve cell dysfunction could reveal a target for therapy, according to the authors.

In humans, the cerebellum's extensive connectivity with the rest of the brain suggests it does far more than learn motor skills: it has been shown to have a part in both perception and cognition, with recent work linking cerebellar dysfunction to such complex diseases as schizophrenia and autism.