Sentences with phrase «to kill brain cells»

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to reduce the brain damage caused by head injuries — stopping the body's immune system from killing brain cells.

While it's certainly not a health food, alcohol does not necessarily kill brain cells.

This matters because cosmic rays kill brain cells — or, in any event, brain cells in vitro.

The virus picked up a mutation in 2013 that makes it more aggressive at killing brain cells.

Those proteins can gradually kill brain cells and affect mental capabilities.

In addition, it also stimulates cognitive function and repairs damage to the brain, especially killed brain cells.

This allows you to get to know your match more easily, rather than having to kill your brain cells thinking of good conversation topics.

Your body uses cortisol to kill brain cells so you won't remember terror or unpleasant experiences.

Viruses with one of these mutations, dubbed S139N, killed brain cells in fetal mice and destroyed human brain cells grown in lab dishes more aggressively than the Cambodian strain from 2010 did, the researchers found.

Whereas PTSD is a mental illness, marked by unwelcome flashbacks and anguish, CTE is a progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder characterized by abnormal protein deposits that eventually kill brain cells and thus cause cognitive declines, including loss of memory and the ability to learn as well as depression.

Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed significant new evidence to support the idea that high doses of cocaine kill brain cells by triggering overactive autophagy, a process in which cells literally digest their own insides.

Researchers believe they have learned how mutations in the gene that causes Huntington's disease kill brain cells, a finding that could open new opportunities for treating the fatal disorder.

Shi and colleagues don't yet know why tweaking the protein makes the virus kill brain cells more readily.

I seriously think I won't ever learn that it's like the wild, wild west for me every time I try to do something on my own, and I probably end up killing brain cells rather than getting some new ones with valuable information.

«We don't know if this will work in humans, but it's exciting to have a solid new lead on how this condition kills brain cells.»

Scientists have known for some time that the mutated form of the huntingtin protein impairs mitochondria and that this disruption kills brain cells.

«In Huntington's disease, traffic jams in the cell's control center kill brain cells.»

This article was originally published with the title «Drinking alcohol in excess kills brain cells»

Now they can form abnormal tangles, which can help kill brain cells.

It also kills brain cells, particularly in the hippocampus, the region of the brain for learning and memory.

It is an excitatory neurotoxin that excites and then kills brains cells.

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Stress kills brain cells.

The two weeks we spent killing brain cells as we sanded and stained our wood using a toxic high quality exterior finish was the worst of the whole summer, but completely necessary.

Beside killing brain cells over the long term the use of and production of weed affects the real estate industry in a very negative way thanks to our lax laws and weak enforcement of those same said laws.

Reality: Even in heavy drinkers, alcohol consumption doesn't kill brain cells.

Because an accumulation of misfolded proteins has been implicated in aging and in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, scientists have sought ways to artificially boost HSF - 1 in order to reduce the protein plaques and tangles that eventually kill brain cells.

Misfolded prion proteins accumulate in cells, forming dense plaques that clog up the brain and kill brain cells in the process.

New research from the School of Medicine's Albert Kim, MD, PhD (left), and Hiroko Yano, PhD, helps explain how mutations in the gene that causes Huntington's disease kill brain cells.

Shi and colleagues don't yet know why this protein variant should help the virus kill brain cells, too.

Other efforts at treating prion disease have focused on preventing the misfolded proteins from killing brain cells, or on preventing them from accumulating.

If not, you're killing your productivity and killing brain cells.

It kills brain cell; does great damage to the liver and heart; and someone is killed every 50 minutes because of drunk driving.

APOE4 protein also ramps up brain inflammation that kills brain cells...

APOE4 protein also ramps up brain inflammation that kills brain cells, neuroscientist David Holtzman of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and colleagues have discovered.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, a neurodegenerative disease that progressively worsens over time as it kills brain cells.

Many researchers believe PrP causes disease when it misfolds and then triggers other proteins to do likewise, eventually killing brain cells.

When damaged, they leak destructive molecules that can cause substantial harm and eventually kill brain cells.

Scientists believe excess iron builds up in the brain, prompting dangerous free radicals to kill brain cells.

In MS the immune system directly attacks and kills brain cells, causing paralysis.

Basically, certain molecules had started clumping together in Kamni's brain, killing her brain cells.

Leonardi mentioned having a friend with a deadly disease that kills brain cells.

We know it's a bad gene, making a bad protein, that makes people sick, that kills your brain cells.

Growing evidence suggests that these biological factors work together to accelerate cellular aging by shutting down the telomere care system (the caps on your chromosomes that are an indicator of how fast you are aging).6 In fact, excess cortisol can shrink the hippocampus by killing brain cells (your hippocampus is where you store memories and regulate emotions).

Animal studies have shown that giving rats daily injections of cortisone can kill brain cells.