Sentences with phrase «potential brain damage»

If an accident occurs that involves potential brain damage, individuals in those age groups are especially at risk.

You spend nights if not weeks mulling over your baby's vomit and Google up on all the potential brain damage symptoms you can possibly find from baby's head trauma.

Still, the most critical issue is potential brain damage, and before all this information became available (despite the best efforts of the NCAA and NFL) in the past few years, I would have most likely allowed my son (if I had had one) to play football.

Not exact matches

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.

These suggested changes will either be rejected by those in the boxing community (boxing without head shots) or will fail to reduce the potential for devastating harm (head guards have been shown to be generally ineffective in protecting from brain damage).

But they also have the potential to damage our relationships, numb our brains, and cheapen the way we experience life.

Former Arsenal striker Alan Smith insists football has to face up to the potential threat of long - term brain damage to players and welcomed the advancement of further investigation.

Purposeful «heading» of a soccer ball does not appear to result in either short - or long - term brain damages, says two studies, one from 2010 and another from 2012, but experts still think reducing the risk of potential injury from heading the soccer ball is a good idea.

Heavy use of pesticides has the potential to damage a baby's brain, says Landrigan.

It gets 20, 21 and up and higher there is the potential that it could go into the brain and develop what we call the Kernicterus which can cause some kind of brain damage.

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

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

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.

«If a woman ate canned tuna using current guidelines, she'd still almost certainly exceed the level of mercury that could put a baby in the womb at potential risk for brain damage,» she says.

As football players are learning, a violent blow to the head has the potential to cause mild to severe traumatic brain injury — physical damage to the brain that can be debilitating, even fatal.

«It shows there is potential for the brain to recover functionality even several years after damage»

«I don't want to give people false hope — these people weren't getting up and walking around — but it shows there is potential for the brain to recover functionality, even several years after damage,» says Steven Laureys at the University of Liège in Belgium, who led the research.

«I think it's very possible that people who spend a lifetime involved in cognitively stimulating activity have brains that are better able to adapt to potential damage,» said Jagust.

Animal tests studies of PBDEs have revealed the potential for damaging the developing brain and the reproductive system.

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

While the potential risks associated with taking supplemental testosterone — particularly in otherwise healthy men — are not well studied, concern has focused on whether extra amounts of the hormone might damage the prostate, heart or brain.

«And it's also clear that we should be looking into these short shock waves as a potential source of brain damage.

Found that bidirectional molecular mechanisms of communication between the blood and brain may determine the degree of damage and the regenerative potential of tissues within and outside of the nervous system.

She also identified a potential way to block the damaging effects of fibrinogen as it enters the brain while allowing it to maintain its ability to clot blood.

This research points to inflammation as a potential early indicator of later brain degeneration, but we can not say whether inflammation could be causing brain shrinkage or if it is a response to other damaging processes that might already be underway.

Early diagnosis would allow potential therapies to be tested before substantial brain damage occurred.

Furthermore, the success of this project can lead to the development of novel axon - regenerating therapeutics that could transform the clinical treatment of angle - closure glaucoma and other types of optic neuropathies, as well as have the potential to be adapted to regenerating the long - distance axonal projections damaged by spinal cord injury, brain trauma, and white matter stroke.

Our findings suggest that repeated SUS is useful for removing Aβ in the mouse brain without causing overt damage, and should be explored further as a noninvasive method with therapeutic potential in AD.

Drugs that block signaling through this CRF receptor reduce brain damage and deficits in learning and memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer's, suggesting a new potential treatment for this devastating disease.

In fact, a study published in the prestigious Brain Journal singled out astaxanthin's potential brain - health benefits and its ability to fight oxidative damage that can lead to mental decBrain Journal singled out astaxanthin's potential brain - health benefits and its ability to fight oxidative damage that can lead to mental decbrain - health benefits and its ability to fight oxidative damage that can lead to mental decline.

Due to repeated exposure to environmental toxins that can cause cell death in the brain, it is never a bad idea to bolster brain health to prevent potential mental health and brain damage.

As they easily cross the blood brain barrier with the potential for neurological damage, they are best avoided.

To quote directly from that site: «While some drugs or antibiotics may slow, or if it should happen, halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease, sulfur supplementation has the potential of not only preventing, but actually reversing the condition, provided it has not progressed to a stage where much damage has been done to the brain.

Just one mothball has the potential to sicken a dog or cat and mothballs that contain naphthalene can cause serious illness, including digestive tract irritation, liver, kidney and blood cell damage, swelling of the brain tissues, seizures, coma, respiratory tract damage (if inhaled) and even death (if ingested).

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is another potential complication of hyperthyroidism, although seen less commonly, and this can cause damage to several organs including the eyes, kidneys, heart and brain.

Some of these chemicals have the potential to cause cancer and brain damage in humans, so it's reasonable to assume they're also harmful to dogs and cats.

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is another potential complication of hyperthyroidism, and can cause additional damage to several organs, including the eyes, kidneys, heart, and brain.

In light of some recent data, that showed brain cell damage due to anesthetics, we are even more aware of the potential toxicities, in addition to the already known anesthetic risks.

In «Litigation A Risk Management Guide for Midwives» published in 1993 the authors recommended «that hospitals set up arrangements for identifying brain damaged babies, each one of which must be regarded as a potential plaintiff.

A pedestrian vs. motor vehicle accident has the potential to cause death, traumatic brain injuries, disfigurement, scarring, muscle and tissue damage, nerve damage, loss of a limb, depression and other physical and mental impairments.