Sentences with phrase «of damaged brain»

Long considered impossible to accomplish, new research reveals how a simple spice might contribute to the regeneration of the damaged brain.

«It's almost like a raisin shrinking down,» Stenehjem said, in describing the appearance of the damaged brain matter.

When the doctors examined her, they diagnosed her with epilepsy as well, caused by a small patch of damaged brain tissue.

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.

«Because of this finding, we propose that the body posture and sleep quality should be considered when standardizing future diagnostic imaging procedures to assess CSF - ISF transport in humans and therefore the assessment of the clearance of damaging brain proteins that may contribute to or cause brain diseases.»

Not exact matches

Moghadam later attributed some of his behavior to the effects of the then unknown brain tumor, but the first indication that Moghadam's unruly approach could do damage came late last year, after his surgery had been deemed a success.

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.

But the brains of the powerful are different (some would even go so far as to call them damaged).

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.

However, when the researchers damaged a more central brain region called the limbic system, which is the source of emotions and pleasure (among other things), the hamsters» maternal behaviors — like nest - building, picking up pups, and nursing — never developed.

Before too long, you run the risk of permanent brain damage.

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.

High frequency use of MDMA can also damage the brain.

Even if you have an interesting story to tell, most investors won't want to go through the brain damage of doing a «down round,» which creates tension between them and early investors.

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.

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.

Brain injuries damage regions of the brain and this damage can extend post-inBrain injuries damage regions of the brain and this damage can extend post-inbrain and this damage can extend post-injury.

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.

Most people that I've heard of making this regressive step have suffered some sort of brain damage either due to substance abuse or some sort of blunt trauma.

Granted, damaged portions of the brain may never recover.

As helpless and as hopelessly brain damaged as you are portraying Doug to be, I have to wonder why your best friend or the Senator wasn't cognizant of that fact, and why they continued to let him live alone.

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.

One is to allow the patient time for possible recovery to come about, and the other is the use of induced hypothermia to reduce the brain's use of oxygen, thus giving doctors more time to treat the patient before further damage occurs due to any lack of oxygen.

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.

We have learned how physical damage to the brain impairs the functioning of various parts of the body to which the nervous system connects it, and severe brain damage of a congenital nature can prevent the development of anything like a genuinely human personality altogether.

Many other and quite unusual effects, however, appear only as a result of brain damage.

You would have to be suffering from some sort of brain damage to be human and not realize this.

Taking any of this seriously will damage your brain.»

e raised a brain - damaged child (and two others) into adulthood, and the theme of the wounded child, the imperfection that shatters our lives, runs through much of his work.

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.»

Doctor told Mr Justice MacDonald at the family division of the High Court that the infant suffered catastrophic brain damage when he was deprived of oxygen at birth.

This young boy suffered severe brain damage from hitting a rock head first and will have to wear a football helmet and drool cup for the remainder of his life.

Instead, I began to see alcoholism as a physical disease, the outcome of a powerful physical addiction to alcohol that gradually inflicts mortal damage to brain and body chemistry» (p. 23).

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...!

I think maybe it could be considered reasonable that this may simply be a symptom of senility combined with brain damage.

Doctors told the judge that Isaiah suffered «catastrophic» brain damage due to being deprived of oxygen at birth.

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.

Should the government deny a brain damaged patient's next of kin the right to determine when to pull the plug?

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.

In terms of what we know of damage in the brain's right hemisphere, this can be called «polishing» (Arnold J. Mandell, «Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence: God in the Brain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than theybrain's right hemisphere, this can be called «polishing» (Arnold J. Mandell, «Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence: God in the Brain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than theyBrain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than they are.

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.

In contrast, the medieval mind - set exhibited patterns characteristic of damage in the brain's left hemisphere — specifically.

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.