Sentences with phrase «other damage to the brain»

Whereas, more severe TBIs can result in bruising, bleeding, torn tissues and other damage to the brain that can lead to serious long - term complications that require extensive brain injury treatment.

Not exact matches

so prayers please, should i stay on disability, and i could whine and moan enough, and i am probably a fool for trying to be anything other than a disabled aids case with a disintegrating back and diabetes and brain damage who should not be testing my luck in nyc.

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.

Heat stroke can kill or cause damage to the brain and other internal organs.

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.

Its a sport where you are trying to use all your strength to cause brain damage; hopefully enough that the other man can't stand up on his own two legs.

The high percentage of athletes reporting that they continued to play despite experiencing concussion symptoms, while similar to the rates reported in other studies, is concerning, as the failure to diagnose concussions in athletes can lead to further damage to the brain before full recovery, expose them to the cumulative effects of injuries and increased risk of second impact syndrome.

Don't forget a paragraph about the danger of brain damage to the baby (and life - long expensive medical care) or other neurological injury (erb's palsy, etc).

In other words, any way you choose to look at it, no matter how carefully you slice and dice the data, there is simply no getting around the fact that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

The parents are always upset with US as they view it as us intervening and ruining their birth experience (when on head cooling they often can't hold, breastfeed, and do all the other fun and crunchy things they wanted to do after delivery), instead of seeing it as us trying to save their child from a lifetime of brain damage.

The average triplet is born two months premature, significantly raising the risk of disabilities such as cerebral palsy and of lifelong damage to the infant's lungs, eyes, brain and other organs.

Rugby and soccer players who suffer multiple knocks to the head during their careers are at added risk of brain damage that could lead to dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases, brain scientists are warning.

Following an initial brain injury, the dying cells produce substances that go on to damage other brain cells.

Chicago taxpayers are likely on the hook to pay a $ 1.5 million settlement to a bicyclist who suffered brain damage and other injuries that left him with quadriplegia when he crashed into a barricade guarding a sunken catch basin in a late - night accident in the Wicker Park neighborhood.

Potential risks to the baby can include the following: brain damage, premature birth, and other birth defects.

However, if the paint is not handled properly, it can cause lead poising which causes permanent damage to the brain and other organs.

She should reflect on the brain damage she has done to others in that role.

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.

«The regions in these networks are not talking to each other as much as healthy adults of the same age, even in networks where brain damage didn't occur.

One appears to protect brain cells from damage, while the other can stop the virus replicating (Nature Medicine, doi.org/bp4b).

Older adults looking to medical cannabis to relieve chronic pain and other ailments are concerned about its side effects, Ware says: «They want to know, Does this cause damage to my brain?

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

Genes have the potential to become any of several types of proteins, and traumatic brain injury can damage the master genes, which can then lead to damage of other genes.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or other malady.

There weren't any cases of obvious lead poisoning [that is, blatant damage to the brain or other vital organs], but there was an exposure situation and so they asked us to come down and investigate.

An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.

In fact, the authors report in Science this week that damage to that region is 136 times more likely to result in a «disruption of smoking addiction» — defined as the ability to quit easily without relapse — than injury to other parts of the brain.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

However, this damages the axons — the arms that protrude from neurons to make connections with other cells — making it difficult to see exactly how brain cells link up.

What people with this sort of brain damage were missing was the gut feeling that made other people cringe at the thought of throwing a man in front of a trolley, even as they felt it would be right to throw the switch.

DAMAGE to a specific brain area may increase feelings of transcendence, which are part of some religious experiences and other forms of spirituality.

And a week of tossing and turning leads to an increase in another brain protein, tau, which has been linked to brain damage in Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases.

Researchers envision the e-dura being used in people with spinal cord injuries, as a brain implant and even to correct nerve damage in other parts of the body.

New research suggests that repeated exposure to galactic cosmic rays and other forms of radiation would be debilitating — astronauts could suffer brain damage or develop leukemia after reaching the Red Planet — and ultimately deadly.

Stem cells hold tremendous promise for medicine; their ability to metamorphose into other kinds of cells make them useful for repairing injuries — from heart attacks to brain damage.

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.

Exposure to high levels of mercury, often from consumption of fish and other seafood, can damage developing brains, reducing children's IQs.

But this remarkable therapeutic benefit isn't limited to MS. Previous research in animal models that mimic other diseases suggest that certain forms of amyloids can ease damage from strokes, traumatic brain injuries and even heart attacks.

The test measures the neurofilament light chain (neurofilament), a protein released from damaged brain cells, which has been linked to other neurodegenerative diseases but hasn't been studied in the blood of Huntington's disease (HD) patients before.

Wilson says the team next plans to investigate if lithium chloride can blunt other forms of neurological damage, such as that resulting from trauma and stroke, both of which can kill large groups of brain cells.

However surgery is permanent and has the potential to damage other brain areas.

This approach reduces risks of damage to speech, memory, muscle strength, balance, vision, coordination and other function areas of the brain.

Different brain structures seem to support different kinds of learning and memory; brain damage can lead to the loss of one type without disturbing the others.

Doctors often treat the condition by patching the good eye and forcing the brain to rely on the other eye, but the treatment risks damaging vision in the good eye, and if it doesn't succeed or occur early enough in a child's visual development, the vision loss in the impaired eye can be permanent.

In this and in its other histories, Mental Lives shows how the damaged brain finds ingenious solutions to overcoming the effects of its lesions.

Because of the work of several other collaborators, Haughey says, his team knew that some sort of inflammation - promoting molecule was released from brain and targeted to the liver after brain injury to send immune system cells to the damaged area, but the identity of this go - between had been elusive for years.

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a way that corrupted, disease - causing proteins spread in the brain, potentially contributing to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other brain - damaging disorders.

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Fehlings suggests that brain - machine interfaces could one day be combined with several other treatment strategies — such as stem cells and drugs — to produce much greater overall benefit for people with damaged spinal cords.

The other half were treated with induced hypothermia to try to protect the brain from further damage caused by swelling.