Sentences with phrase «rare brain condition»

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They describe his condition as exceptionally rare, with catastrophic and irreversible brain damage.

His parents confirmed that Charlie had died in a hospice yesterday after a long battle with an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and muscle weakness.

In rare cases, vomiting can be a symptom of a serious condition, such as a blockage of the digestive tract (pyloric stenosis), an infection (meningitis) of the fluid (cerebrospinal fluid) and tissues (meninges) that surround the brain and spinal cord, or Reye syndrome.

They have discovered two new genes implicated in two medical conditions and conducted one of the cheapest clinical trials in history, formulating a nutritional formula from pig brains that supplements a protein missing in a rare developmental disorder.

As doctors continue to monitor Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's condition, previous cases of brain injury resulting from bullets and other assaults can help explain what happens to the nervous system during major injuries — and how those rare recoveries are possible

«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

The changes match those seen in people with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, a rare condition in which the pressure of blood and other fluids is abnormally high in the brain.

A more highly publicised case was in 2009, when an Israeli teenager developed brain and spinal tumours after receiving several implants of fetal stem cells in Moscow to treat a rare degenerative condition.

Much rarer are headaches due to life - threatening conditions such as meningitis, encephalitis, cerebral aneurysms, extremely high blood pressure, and brain tumors.

Even in the Burgess Shale, one of the rare places on Earth where conditions are just right to enable exceptionally good preservation of Cambrian fossils, finding fossilised brain tissue is very uncommon.

The rare progressive condition attacks nerve cells located in the brain and spinal cord responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

Scientists investigated Williams syndrome or WS, a rare genetic condition caused by deletion of one copy of 25 contiguous genes on chromosome 7, out of an estimated 30,000 genes in the brain.

Huntington's disease is a relatively rare fatal inherited condition that gradually kills off healthy nerve cells in the brain, leading to loss of language, thinking and reasoning abilities, memory, coordination and movement.

A case in point is the rare but severe psychomotor disease Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome (AHDS), a congenital condition that affects only males and starves the developing brain of thyroid hormone, resulting in cognitive impairment and atrophied muscles and motor skills.

But in people with a rare inherited condition, when the brain orders one hand to move, the other hand performs the same movement at the same time.

It's a rare neurological condition in which children have unusually small heads and incomplete brain development.

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The main birth defect attributed to Zika is microcephaly, a rare neurological condition in which an infant is born with a much smaller head — an effect of abnormal brain development.

The latter could be caused by the former, but also by other conditions such as progressive supranuclear palsy (a rare brain disorder that destroys nerve cells) or multiple system atrophy (a degenerative condition originating in parts of the brain).

Philadelphia, PA About Blog Read about advancements and tips for managing a variety of neurological conditions, including epilepsy, stroke, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, spine disease, Parkinson's disease, and rare neurological conditions.

A Cavalier King Charles spaniel with a rare, life - threatening condition receives brain surgery, and a Jack Russell gets an ultrasound scan

Martin Strauss admits upfront to being an unreliable narrator; after all, his doctor has just told him «Yours is a rare condition in which the damage that is being done to your brain does not destroy cognitive function but instead affects your brain's ability to store and process memories.

Encephalitis is a relatively rare condition, affecting fewer than 200,000 people each and every year which is defined as an inflammation of the brain.

Philadelphia, PA About Blog Read about advancements and tips for managing a variety of neurological conditions, including epilepsy, stroke, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, spine disease, Parkinson's disease, and rare neurological conditions.

Philadelphia, PA About Blog Read about advancements and tips for managing a variety of neurological conditions, including epilepsy, stroke, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, spine disease, Parkinson's disease, and rare neurological conditions.