Sentences with phrase «patients lose their memories»

Scientists have long suspected that Alzheimer's patients lose their memories and their wits when amyloid beta proteins form needlelike aggregates that punch holes in brain cells and kill them.

In one common device, movie patients lose their memory after a blow to the head, then regain it with a second injury.

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«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

Brain - damaged patients who appear to have lost signs of conscious awareness might still be able to create new memories, showing signs of new neural networks and potential for partial recovery

His studies with older adults explore why pop songs grab hold of our memories — and whether music could help dementia patients reconnect with lost knowledge.

The victims of cerebral infarcts that lose a part of the mobility of their body undergo physiotherapy treatments, while the therapies based on the training of attention are reserved for patients with cognitive disorders such as learning or memory difficulties.

After concentrating on disorders like Alzheimer's disease, where memory loss is so severe that patients gradually lose the ability to recognise even members of their own family, the industry is now expanding its horizons.

A study by researchers at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) is the first to demonstrate that patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) lose the emotional content / colour of their memories.

Early in her restless, inventive career, Elizabeth Phelps was trying to understand the deep structure of memory by showing word lists to people with amnesia — patients who'd survived a brain injury or stroke but lost the ability to remember.

But because skilled performance, like playing music or flying airplanes, requires much more than mere muscle memory, and because this patient retained it despite losing most other aspects of her declarative memory, researchers conclude this type of skill - related declarative knowledge is different.

Canadian and U.K. researchers found that two patients who had lost their autobiographical memory (not to mention the ability to view themselves in future situations — such as dreaming about their wedding day) were able to pick up emotional cues and figure out the intentions of others.

Gunstad and his colleagues tested the group again and found that patients who had lost weight scored higher on memory tests.

When LDL is driven too low, it's no wonder that a lot of patients develop memory problems or pre-Alzheimer's, or even total global amnesia, which is really losing one's memory.

Notable examples include «H.M. 2009,» Kerry Tribe «s double film projection about an epilepsy patient who lost his short - term memory in experimental brain surgery and Nina Berman's arresting images of former Marine sergeant Ty Ziegel, who was severely disfigured in a suicide bombing in Iraq; R.H. Quaytman's series «Distracting Distance,» which riffs on the physical act of perception; and Suzan Frecon's huge minimalist paintings, which embrace the labor intensity of making an art object that is intended to last.

Thus, when the EP is activated, the patient in that state tends to lose access to a range of memories that are readily available for the ANP.