Sentences with phrase «to damage brain cells»

These symptoms, whether mild or more severe, are generally caused by damaged brain cells.

By using a dye that highlights damaged brain cells, they were able to monitor injury development in the slices up to three days after blast exposure.

These chemicals can also damage brain cells and this creates a new baseline stress response.

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.

It forever damages brain cells, robbing a child of IQ points and the ability to pay attention.

«Prion proteins with a trimmed version of the flexible tail can, however, no longer damage the brain cells, even if their switch has been recognized by antibodies,» explains Adriano Aguzzi.

Eventually these smaller structures glom together to form plaques, but by then they have already damaged brain cells.

Lack of oxygen can directly damage brain cells.

Caused by a mutation in the gene for a protein called huntingtin, the disease damages brain cells so that people with Huntington's progressively lose their ability to walk, talk, think and reason.

Re-introducing your own stem cells systemically or directly into damaged areas of the brain can stimulate the repair and regeneration of damaged brain cells essential for dopamine production.

Having high levels of stress for a month or two bathes your brain in cortisol, which can induce depression and even damage brain cells.

PQQ is also a potent antioxidant mopping up free radicals that would otherwise damage brain cells.

In addition, the increase in stress hormones ramps up cellular activity and causes excessive production of free radicals which damage brain cells and further reduce normal GABA production (9).

Recent research on the effect of aromatic turmerone, a turmeric extract, shows that the plant extract may help regenerate damaged brain cells after things like a stroke.

These are toxic breakdown products that damage brain cell membranes.

The DHA fatty acids in Omega 3 are needed to build new and replace damaged brain cells, and without EPA fatty acids, the brain does not function properly.

«What we found is that physical rehab is not going to change the weakness caused by damaged brain cells in chronic patients, but it is going to change how well they can perform certain tasks, which can have a huge impact on a patient's daily life,» says Pablo Celnik, M.D., director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins.

8 - hydroxy - 2 ′ - Deoxyguanosine... a measure of the DNA residue from damaged brain cells or damaged nerve cells, mostly in the brain.

People with Alzheimer's generally have observable tangles of tau proteins, inflammation in the brain, damaged brain cells, and higher concentrations of beta - amyloid proteins, which make up a plaque associated with the disease.

In some people, though, it collects into toxic tangles that damage brain cells.

In some people, the brain protein tau collects into toxic tangles that damage brain cells and contribute to diseases such as Alzheimer's.

During sleep, a newly discovered network of water channels in the brain, called the glymphatic system, becomes active and functions as a waste disposal system, carrying toxins away which would otherwise accumulate and damage brain cells.

Her lab pioneered the study of blood proteins in neurological diseases, showing that when these proteins leak into the brain, they damage brain cells and activate the brain's immune system, triggering inflammation and neuron death.

The inhibition of intercellular communication can damage the brain cells and cause them to die off.

This can dangerously slow your heart rate and lead to dizziness, fainting, and shallow breathing, which can deprive your body of oxygen and damage brain cells.

The sleep you get now may be crucial because it's deeper than the sleep you get in old age, Dr. Small says: «It can help your brain clear out amyloid proteins associated with Alzheimer's and reduces inflammation that can damage brain cells.»

But too much may damage brain cells and circuitry.

It can damage our brain cells and alter nerve circuits that control emotions.

When your immune system isn't working properly, free radicals thrive in your body causing oxidative stress which in turn harms the cardiovascular system, causes wrinkles, damages your brain cells, retina cells, and renal cells.

This leads to a decline in energy levels in the brain, and these dysfunctional mitochondria release larger amounts of free radicals that can damage the brain cells.