Not exact matches
Set up as a mock - trial, the session was designed to examine the increasingly common dilemma of whether evidence
such as MRI images, which can be used to see damage in the
brain such as
lesions or tumors, should be entered into court cases.
In
such cases, what links the
brain lesions and the subsequent crimes may be a personality trait
such as impulsivity, which is only apparent under certain conditions (and which will not be found by looking at
brain lesions).
Doctors have known for some time that the confusion and memory loss caused by the
brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's can also be caused by other types of
brain changes,
such as tissue damage stemming from strokes.
Seizure - free dogs that died before age four were not included in the data analysis and 37 dogs that had seizures in the presence of seizure - associated conditions or diseases,
such as hyperthermia, portosystemic shunts, head trauma, or
brain / neurological
lesions,
such as neoplasia and ehrlichiosis, were excluded from the study.
Non-epileptic seizures are usually focal - motor seizures and are caused by an abundance of electrical activity in the
brain due to a
brain lesion,
such as an abscess or tumor.
There are many different types of
brain tumors, some act as space occupying
lesions and other are functional
such as pituitary tumors causing Cushing's disease.
Studies conducted there and elsewhere show now link
such pollution with
lesions in the
brains of adults and even children.