Sentences with phrase «severely damaging their brains»
They developed a method that concussed the mice — without severely damaging their brains.
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When those areas of the brain — particularly the prefrontal - cortex (pfc)-- are underdeveloped or damaged, the emotions associated with sociality are either severely truncated or absent altogether.
But he hopes that their simple test will help pave the way for more definitive and accurate assessments of consciousness in the severely brain damaged.
Consider a problem of great clinical, ethical and legal relevance, that of inferring the presence of consciousness in severely brain - damaged patients.
While many contend that the earliest cognitive deficits are caused by damage to the striatum — a structure deep in the brain known to be severely affected in HD — recent evidence suggests that this claim may paint an incomplete picture of the widespread changes occurring in the brains of HD patients during the very early stages of the disease.
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.
Our results show that default network connectivity is decreased in severely brain - damaged patients, in proportion to their degree of consciousness impairment.
Tests were done on Benoit's brain by the head of neurosurgery at West Virginia University, Julian Bailes, and the results were that his brain had been so severely damaged that it looked like the brain of an 80 - year - olf Alzheimer's patient.
This leads to excess glucose in the bloodstream, which is severely damaging to tissues in the blood vessels and brain.
The future - care cost report will be more lengthy and complex, and will provide for a substantial amount of attendant care benefits, particularly if somebody is either paraplegic, quadriplegic, or severely brain damaged.
Nursing home abuse cases are many and some are startling in that residents suffer physical abuse by personnel, neglect by medical providers, or they are injured severely enough to be brain - damaged or burned because of fire unnoticed by nursing home employees.
Louis v. Gwinnett Medical Center, Dr. Williard Hearin: A jury awarded $ 30.5 million to a mother and her child who was born severely and permanently brain - damaged because of medical malpractice.
Improper use of a vacuum extractor severely damages the baby's brain, impairing the child's motor functions.
Therefore, even the most severely injured person (e.g. severe brain injury with quadriplegia) only gets $ 335,000 for non-pecuniary damages.