Sentences with phrase «other brain problems»

When this algae makes its way up the food chain, domoic acid can cause seizures and other brain problems, mostly in sea lions.

Other antibiotics, like the fluoroquinolones can cause memory issues and other brain problems, muscle issues, profound fatigue, and even rupture of tendons.

Zika has been linked to microcephaly (a birth defect where baby's head is smaller than expected) and other brain problems in babies exposed while in utero.

Not exact matches

As entrepreneurs and creative workers, we should use our brains mainly for creative problem solving, and use simple rules for most other kinds of decisions.

The report also says that air pollution can affect the developing brains of children, make other health problems worse and sickness because of air pollution can keep children from attending school regularly, leading to other problems that are not physiological.

My problem is with people like you superimposing your beliefs on people like me who believe that until the brain is distinguished from the other cells making up the embyo, it does not possess enough human quality to warrant protection under the law.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

My husband died by suicide and I'm appalled at the number of ignorant people in the world and in the church who believe «you just have to change your thinking» to overcome depression, anxiety or other brain related diseases, and even take to blaming the family for the problem.

Along with fatigue, other symptoms may include brain fog, short - term memory problems, and poor concentration.

Fatigue, pain, brain fog and other cognitive difficulties all contribute to memory problems.

Team physicians, athletic trainers, and other personnel responsible for the medical care of athletes face no more challenging problem than the recognition, evaluation and management of concussions (generally defined as injury to the brain caused by a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the head that results in any immediate, but temporary, alteration in brain functions, such as loss of consciousness, blurred vision, dizziness, amnesia or loss of memory).

For example psychiatrist Bruce Perry, who runs the Child Trauma Academy has written extensively for audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one example.

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?»

Neurocognitive testing: Tests of problem - solving ability, short - term memory, and other complex brain functions.

Breathing lead dust or fumes or swallowing anything with lead in it can give a child lead poisoning, Lead poisoning can cause learning disabilities, kidney disease, brain damage, delayed growth, and other problems.

Other babies are born with problems in the part of their brain that controls breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and waking from sleep.

Babies who are born prematurely are at higher risk of brain and other neurological complications, as well as breathing and digestive problems.

These are problems with how the brain works that can cause a person to have trouble or delays in physical development, learning, communicating, taking care of himself or getting along with others.

Usually an ultrasound is a good method for checking out a baby for possible bleeding in the brain, or other problems.

Lead poisoning can cause lower IQs, long - lasting brain damage and many other health problems.

Lead exposure can result in impaired brain development, neurological problems and other ailments.

Panksepp saw that human emotions and emotional problems could be explored by studying other mammals — how their brains generated emotions akin to the anger, sadness and joy that humans describe, what neurons and neural circuits were involved.

Damasio soon discovered other people with damage in the same regions of the brain suffering from the same problem.

Given how widespread many of these problems are, watching the Brain Gain initiative unfold could be instructive for researchers from other countries.

WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the brain's white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other ills.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

But it also leads to other problems, Jasanoff notes: Society views broken brains as harder to fix than moral flaws, making life even more challenging for individuals already struggling with mental illness.

Still, the authors and other experts caution against overinterpreting the results, because the brains all came from symptomatic former players and not from those who remained free of mental problems.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

A key problem has been separating these precise brain signals from those associated with other brain activity, and the highly artificial signals generated by the exoskeleton.

A Portland State University research team studying concussion has published an interactive diagram showing the many facets of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI)-- from sleep problems to mood disorders to the increased danger of dementia — and how they connect with and affect each other.

On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.

«Alzheimer's disease might be a «whole body» problem: Amyloid - beta can travel, cancer - like, to brain from other parts of body.»

Neurons in the outer layers are connected to other parts of the cortex, which in humans play a role in higher - level brain processes such as self - awareness, language and problem - solving.

In one experiment, Cook's team tested 30 sea lions, each of which had undergone an MRI scan to assess brain damage because of suspected toxin poisoning or other health problems.

Interestingly, the authors noted that since the study showed that microbiota in the gut can influence the brain, it «adds to evidence suggesting that the intestinal microbiota may play some role in the spectrum of brain disorders ranging from mood or anxiety to other problems that may include autism, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.»

Autism and other specific mental disorders may be caused in part by «specific circuits or regions of the brain [that] had problems with connectivity,» Krienen says.

The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.

The way around that problem, of course, is for schools, sports leagues and other organizations to join public health experts in raising ever greater awareness among coaches, parents and children to play it smart and take brain injury very seriously.

The findings imply that, at least in theory, it might be possible to use brain stimulation to improve cognitive problems caused by PD, and possibly other cognitive disorders, too.

The so - called telencephalon gives rise to the most sophisticated parts of the brain — including the frontal lobes and other so - called association areas that do the heavy lifting when it comes to problem solving, social interactions, and memory.

The next step is to see how the brain filters out other voices to focus on a single voice, a phenomenon called the cocktail party problem.

When presented with a physics problem or ethical dilemma, a healthy brain fires up the appropriate network while suppressing the other.

Mixing alcohol and other sedatives, like sleeping pills or narcotic pain medications, can cause sleepiness, problems with coordination, and potentially suppress brain stem areas tasked with controlling vital reflexes like breathing, heart rate, and gagging to clear the airway.

In addition to suffering from a host of other problems like an abnormally large accumulation of this spinal fluid in the brain, these mice developed new neurons that did not have a clear sense of direction, pointing and moving in multiple orientations.

The drug works by increasing the concentration of certain neurotransmitters in the brain that control reasoning, problem solving and other behaviors.

«The evidence seems compelling that the brain has these two kinds of learning systems, and the complementary learning systems theory explains how they complement each other to provide a powerful solution to a key learning problem that faces the brain,» says Stanford Professor of Psychology James McClelland, lead author of the 1995 paper and senior author of the current Review.

A dedicated neurointensive critical care unit for the management of patients with stroke, brain infections, and other acute, disabling problems.

However, even though these patients don't have a blood problem, vis a vis these diseases typically affect brain, heart, and or other organs, they have to undergo myeloablative chemotherapy so their body doesn't reject the donor cells.

«The ultimate strategy is to have a device that you can place in the brain — or in other organs in the body — that is entirely implanted, intimately connected with the organ you want to monitor and can transmit signals wirelessly to provide information on the health of that organ, allowing doctors to intervene if necessary to prevent bigger problems,» said co-first author Rory K. J. Murphy, M.D., in a press release.