Sentences with phrase «patients with brain damage»

Laureys's team found that zolpidem had no significant effect on any of 60 patients with brain damage (Functional Neurology, in press).

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

These contrasting patterns of activity can now be detected via brain scans, and could one day help determine if patients with brain damage are conscious.

Not exact matches

The combination of motor imagery and BCI feedback can help the brain rebuild damaged neural pathways, but is not successful with every patient.

Already familiar with the seminal case of Phineas Gage, the hardworking, entrepreneurial 19th - century construction foreman who became an antisocial itinerant after a pointed rod pierced his skull and damaged part of his brain's emotional system, Damasio began to suspect that his patients» inability to be emotional was getting in the way of their reasoning.

Brain scans of patients with primary progressive MS showed fewer signs of damage and the patients» ability to walk deteriorated more slowly than in individuals who received a placebo, researchers reported in January in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Together with his colleagues, he turned to a brain - damaged patient called Roger who had suffered damage to the insula and ACC on both sides of the brain after suffering a serious bout of hepatic encephalitis.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

«We have seen that two gambling distortions — the «gambler's fallacy» and the «near - miss» effect — that are evident in the general population, and which appear to be increased in problem gamblers, are actually abolished in patients with damage to the insula region of the brain,» he said.

Using film to trigger detectable signs of consciousness has another major limitation: Many brain - damaged patients can't keep their eyes open and looking forward, or simply can't see, says neurologist Andrew Goldfine of the Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute in New York, who wasn't involved with the new study.

Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium reported at a conference in France this week that a study of 13 patients in comas of varying degrees indicated that those with the most activity in these pathways (in the cortex, or brain processing center) had suffered the least brain damage and thereby were most likely to recover if given the correct treatment.

Researchers back then found that exposure to aluminum caused rabbits» brains to develop nerve cell damage — thought to be a precursor to Alzheimer's at the time — and long - term dialysis patients with high levels of the metal developed dementia.

Inside these cells is a protein called alpha - synuclein, which is known to go awry and lead to damaging clumps in the brains of Parkinson's patients, as well as those with Alzheimer's disease.

In general, after a patient has experienced 24 hours in a seizure and there have been multiple failed attempts to stop it with drugs, physicians will use general anesthetics to put a patient in a coma to protect the muscles, kidneys and brain from damage — common side effects of prolonged seizure episodes.

Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.

Experts were concerned that patients with early brain tissue damage — which can be difficult for stroke doctors to see — were more likely to suffer a brain bleed if they were treated with alteplase.

The patients, doctors found, usually had widespread brain damage, but two injured areas were especially noteworthy: the thin outer rind, called the cortex, and the thalamus, a pair of walnut - size lumps in the brain's central core, along with the neural fibers that connect these regions.

Many brain - damaged patients develop epilepsy, often with debilitating consequences, including sudden death.

Researchers from UCL and Swansea have been investigating the results of autopsies from a small number of retired professional footballers with dementia in an effort to determine whether their brains showed distinct damage compared to other typical dementia patients.

Brain lesions: Daniel Tranel, professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will look at patients with brain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various areas of the brain are damBrain lesions: Daniel Tranel, professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will look at patients with brain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various areas of the brain are dambrain sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will look at patients with brain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various areas of the brain are dambrain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various areas of the brain are dambrain are damaged.

To further support this idea, HD patients who display the most severe brain damage are the ones with the highest levels of CAG repeat instability.

This is still an interesting paper but it would have been better to actually scan the 17 (or 40) patients» brains or follow up a sample of patients with brain injuries sustained in road traffic accidents, combat situations, etc., to see which ones become violent / criminal and whether this relates to the site and extent of the damage.»

By analyzing multiple patients with damage to a particular voxel or cluster of voxels and comparing their cognitive abilities with those of patients in whom the same structures were intact, the researchers were able to identify brain regions essential to specific cognitive functions, and those structures that contribute significantly to intelligence.

In a double - blind, sham - controlled, cross-over study, Thibaut et al (2014) examined the effects of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tDCS (DLPF - tDCS) on Coma Recovery Scale - Revised (CRS - R) scores in severely brain - damaged patients with disorders of consciousness.

It is now almost routine to grow skin cells from a patient with, say, a neurological disease; turn them into pluripotent cells in a Petri dish; convert the cells into nerve cells to study the disease process; and contemplate using the cells to repair the same patient's damaged brain.

The brains of Alzheimer's patients are dotted with these plaques, which likely impair with adjacent neuron function, causing long term damage.

(Chlorella, January 19th, 2012) Because it is believed that a powerful phytochemical found in chlorella can even rebuild nerve damage in human brain and nervous system chlorella is being often used in the recovery of patients with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

A persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than Persistent Systems Ltd..

Sustained hypertension is associated with damage to the eyes, ears, brain, and kidneys.6, 7 A hypertensive emergency occurs when the patient has a marked elevation of blood pressure and is at risk for development of end - organ damage or vascular incidents, such as cerebral hemorrhage causing neurologic signs or intraocular hemorrhage causing blindness.7

If the medical malpractice has rendered the patient paralyzed or with permanent brain damage, a separate expert in the field of life care planning will need to conduct an extensive cost analysis of how much money will be needed to take care of the patient's medical needs for the rest of their life.

$ 3.2 million for a heart transplant patient who suffered massive brain damage when her blood sugar was allowed to plummet in post-surgical ICU to a level inconsistent with life, due to lack of proper monitoring.

But research increasingly shows that when the «white matter» that ties the gray stuff together is damaged or deficient — as it can be in patients with brain trauma, autism and schizophrenia — goal - directed task performance can be very poor.