Sentences with phrase «term damage to the brain»

Animal testing indicates that pesticides can cause permanent changes in brain chemistry that may lead to behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and even long - term damage to the brain and nervous system.

Boxing and American football are under scrutiny because of head injuries causing long - term damage to the brain, but the situation is much less clear for football where heading is extremely common, but head injuries are less so.

Not exact matches

As for Tagliabue, his waving off of the concussion issue in the»90s, and the league's turning a blind eye to head injuries for much of his tenure, no doubt damaged his candidacy for joining in Canton the very men at risk for long - term impacts of brain trauma due to the sport.

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.

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

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.

This person has her child's whole life to come to terms with the gravity of brain damage.

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.

Through education and awareness, Head Case aims to prevent traumatic brain injuries and long - term permanent brain damage due to repeated undetected concussions.

It is critical for physicians to monitor these secondary tissue damages, as they are frequently the origin of significant long - term effects, including brain damage, cognitive deficits, psychosocial / behavioral / emotional changes, bodily damage and biochemical changes at the cellular level.

An IED's secondary «blast wind,» a huge volume of displaced air flooding at high pressure back into the vacuum, can also damage the brain and lead to long - term consequences such as CTE.

UCI's Charles Limoli and colleagues found that exposure to highly energetic charged particles — much like those found in the galactic cosmic rays that will bombard astronauts during extended spaceflights — causes significant long - term brain damage in test rodents, resulting in cognitive impairments and dementia.

The NFL not only publicly denied evidence that long - term brain damage could result from concussions suffered by its players, but worked to undercut it

The well - known short - term effects of THC, which include cognitive and motor impairments, don't seem to impart any long - term damage to adult brains, said Igor Grant from the University of California, San Diego.

One solution to John Hardy's call to ban boxing because of the long - term risk of brain damage (10 August, p...

This significantly impairs blood flow in the long term, causing lasting damage to brain cells.

Overall, the research found that the most common type of condition that contributed to brain injuries was damage caused by lack of oxygen to the brain, called hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy; this is seen mainly in full term babies.

Researchers back then found that exposure to aluminum caused rabbits» brains to develop nerve cell damage — thought to be a precursor to Alzheimer's at the time — and long - term dialysis patients with high levels of the metal developed dementia.

The impact can trigger a cascade of cellular reactions that further damage the brain and neurons, potentially leading to long - term cognitive impairments.

May 15, 2006 Full year of treatment helps infants and children with toxoplasmosis The first long - term study shows that treatment with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine (two anti-parasitic drugs) during the first year of life leads to a lasting reduction in brain and eye damage for children with congenital toxoplasmosis.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Although a genetic test can determine whether a person has the HD mutation, it can not predict the short - term risk of developing symptoms, or determine the likely amount of present damage to the brain.

Be kind to your brain and plan for a healthy mind in the long term by staying away from these seven brain - damaging foods.

You probably already know some of the harmful health effects of these foods, but long term effects on your brain are yet another... Trans fats — strongly inflammatory in your entire body including damage to cell membranes throughout your body.

Stress is a perfectly healthy reaction and will give your body a boost to get away from a lion or some other short term threat, but chronically over the long term it damages the stomach, the brain, the arteries.

Certified Complete Concussion Management ™ practitioners are continuously updated on current research and treatments in order to manage these injuries properly and safely to ensure adequate recovery, thereby limiting the risk of further injury and long - term brain damage.

We know with confidence that long - term ketosis poses substantial risk for health complications because thousands of children have followed ketogenic diets over the years as a means of suppressing intractable grand mal seizures unresponsive to drugs and procedures, seizures that can lead to irreversible brain damage if not stopped.

Long term psychological issues and «damage» are major players in my case and having recently completed Daniel and Tana Amen's excellent «Brain Warrior's Way» 6 month course, I am seriously considering visiting one of his clinics in the US next spring during our visit there to have the SPECT scan and a full evaluation.

«However, even with antibiotic treatment, 10 to 15 percent of individuals infected with meningococcal disease will die, and as many as 20 percent will have long - term disabilities such as loss of limbs, deafness, nervous system problems, or brain damage.»

Stroke is a term that describes a loss of blood flow to an area of the brain, causing neuronal cell damage.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the term used to describe the damage to the brain suffered as a result of a sudden physical force.

Whereas, more severe TBIs can result in bruising, bleeding, torn tissues and other damage to the brain that can lead to serious long - term complications that require extensive brain injury treatment.

Despite a series of incidents linking players to serious head injuries, sporting bodies are failing to act fast enough to ensure that they are protected from concussions and long - term brain damage says Moore Blatch partner Ciaran McCabe.

The long - term outlook following a traumatic brain injury depends on the extent of damage to the brain.

A serious back injury, an amputated arm or leg, brain damage, asbestosis, or another catastrophic workplace injury that gives rise to partial / total permanent disability entitles the worker to long - term wage and medical benefits.

When you or your loved one has suffered a head injury as a result of the negligence or carelessness of another person, including traumatic brain injury or brain damage, you want an experienced and aggressive lawyer to help get all the compensation you need and deserve to ensure that your short - term and long - term needs are met.

TBI often results in long - term, permanent damage to the brain and the rest of the nervous system.

Not all TBIs have long - term effects, but a moderate to severe injury could cause permanent brain damage.

Chuck: What say you to the numerous reports / studies put forth by / conducted by psychiatrists / psychologists and the medical profession, respectively, that conclude that the use of marijuana during teen - age years causes brain damage... long term... regarding memory loss, reasoning ability, lowered I.Q. and motivation?