Sentences with phrase «studies of brain damage»

Here's a hint: «Low calorie» does not equal «World's healthiest», especially when you add artificial sweeteners, which have been linked to studies of brain damage and cancer.

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To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of words.

One of the clearest pieces of evidence that cannabis can cause lasting damage to the brain came in a 2012 New Zealand study that followed cannabis users over several decades.

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.

The study she read about concluded that 15 percent of those who played only high school football had brain damage associated with CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy).

The high percentage of athletes reporting that they continued to play despite experiencing concussion symptoms, while similar to the rates reported in other studies, is concerning, as the failure to diagnose concussions in athletes can lead to further damage to the brain before full recovery, expose them to the cumulative effects of injuries and increased risk of second impact syndrome.

Because the brain of the young athlete is still developing, with even subtle damage leading to learning deficits adversely affecting development, and with studies showing younger athletes recover more slowly than adults, a more conservative approach to concussions in children and teens than for older athletes is recommended.

Secondly, before you make comments such as «Sleep training doesn't seem worth it when there is a risk of damaging my child's brain development», PLEASE, read the actual studies.

Conflicted: successful VBAC, brain damaged baby Another homebirth, another brain injured baby, but the midwife was awesome Sam: a victim of homebirth But the baby's heartrate was fine right before it dropped nearly dead into the homebirth midwife's hands Two recent studies, released since de Crespigny and Savulescu submitted their paper for publication, have shown that the risk is extraordinarily high.

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.

A 2010 study finds no support that purposeful «heading» of a soccer ball leads to either short - term (acute) or cumulative brain damage, such as cognitive dysfunction.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Did the study show that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage or did it show that homebirth is safe for rigorously screened women who have had uncomplicated births in the past?

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

Perhaps most concerning, four of the Purdue studies found that damage to the brain from RHI persisted after the football season was over, as did a 2014 study by Bazarian and his URMC colleagues, [23] which found changes in brain white matter in a small group of college football players which persisted six months after the season was over.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had earlier stated that BPA — the chemical that hardens plastics in products like bottles and cups, and is used in linings of metal cans — is safe; the agency announced last month that a few new studies have underlined «some concerns» about BPA's possibility of potentially damaging the brain of fetuses, infants and children.

Those that warn that letting babies cry is damaging to their brains cite studies of babies that were subjected to chronic neglect or abuse or raised in orphanages and lacking strong attachment figures.

Recent studies show poor sleeping habits cause both brain damage and brain shrinkage, and may even accelerate onset of Alzheimer's disease.1 Previous research published in the journal Science2 revealed that your brain removes toxic waste during sleep through what has been dubbed «the glymphatic system.»

A growing catalogue of peer - reviewed studies clearly assert that CIO harms normal brain development and damages a child's capacity to develop secure attachment bonds — essential to the cultivation of empathy, pro-social behavior, and future, healthy long - term relationships.

Personally, I am not comfortable leaving my children to cry on their own for any length of time, but I do recognize that there aren't specific scientific studies saying that leaving a baby to cry for 5 or 10 minutes would cause damage to their brains.

But a study this year dealt one of the hardest hits yet to the sport, detailing the extensive damage in football players» brains, and not just those who played professionally.

A 2006 study of 77 pregnant women infected with West Nile virus reported that two had infants with microcephaly, the birth defect lately associated with Zika that results in unusually small and damaged brains.

Jordan Grafman, one of the study's investigators, and his team found that injured veterans who experienced more RSMEs were more likely to have damage in an area of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

We wanted to find a way to assess brain damage that could predict the development of dementia associated with vascular diseases,» said Daniela Carnevale, Ph.D., the study's senior author and assistant professor at Sapienza University of Rome, based in Neuromed Institute.

Studies have also found damage in the white matter of the brain, which connects these regions.

Previous studies of PLEs have found alterations in specific brain networks, but the findings reveal that it is not just about damaged connections — the amount of time spent in uncommon brain states may contribute to psychosis..

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

In a «proof - of - principle» study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the researchers described how this brain - computer interface (BCI) produced a 36 % improvement in motor function of a stroke - damaged hand.

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

«This kind of study allows us to start understanding the cellular mechanisms» behind the brain damage, she says.

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.

«In this review, we aimed to highlight a blend of new studies using cutting edge research techniques to investigate brain damage, but also to relate these new studies to original studies, some of which were published more than a century ago,» said lead author Dr. Sara Szczepanski, of the University of California, Berkeley.

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«This study, carried out using laboratory rats modeling stroke, demonstrated that ischemic stroke — in both its subacute and chronic stages — damages the BSCB in a variety of ways, creating a toxic environment in the spinal cord that can lead to further disability and exacerbate disease pathology,» said study lead author Dr. Svitlana Garbuzova - Davis, associate professor in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.

ß - amyloid deposits can damage many organs besides the brain, including the heart, liver, and kidneys, says neuroscientist Rudolph Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, a leader of the new study.

«The hearings were a turning point,» says Julian Bailes, a neurosurgeon in West Virginia who co-authored some of the first studies showing evidence of brain damage in NFL players.

This approach parallels our study of «normal» illusions — by understanding misperceptions, whether for intact or damaged systems, we gain insight into brain processes involved in perception.

To explain how brains make these on - the - fly decisions, Reza Shadmehr of Johns Hopkins University and John Krakauer of Columbia University two years ago reviewed studies in which the brains of healthy people and of brain - damaged patients who have trouble controlling their movements were scanned.

All of the study subjects had damage to the prefrontal cortex, a brain region behind the forehead that is important to cognitive tasks such as planning, problem - solving, self - restraint and complex thought.

Researchers have studied the brain activity of young binge - drinking college students in Spain, and found distinctive changes in brain activity, which may indicate delayed brain development and be an early sign of brain damage.

In a study led by Duke Health and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, scientists demonstrate in rats that a short duration of the drug donepezil can reverse both structural and genetic damage that bouts of alcohol use causes in neurons, or nerve cells, in the young brain.

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.

As Meeks and Jeste continue developing their model of wisdom in the brain, they plan to study the distribution of wisdom in the general population and examine brain - damaged individuals to confirm the regions involved.

Linda Bartoshuk, a University of Florida researcher who studies how taste perception affects health, knew from earlier research that middle - ear infections can damage the chorda tympani, the nerve that carries taste information from the front of the tongue to the brain.

The test measures the neurofilament light chain (neurofilament), a protein released from damaged brain cells, which has been linked to other neurodegenerative diseases but hasn't been studied in the blood of Huntington's disease (HD) patients before.

«Our study showed that lithium chloride prevented many of the damaging neurological effects of alcohol abuse on the still - developing brain, especially the impact on the parts of the brain controlling sleep,» says co-senior study investigator Donald Wilson, PhD.

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

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.