Sentences with phrase «white matter injury in»

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Writing in Nature Neuroscience, David Rowitch at the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues point the way AXIN2 was expressed in infants with white - matter brain injuries.

«This is going to be important in the future, both for multiple sclerosis and different types of newborn white - matter injury,» Fancy says.

Since most cognitive processes involve multiple parts of the brain working together, injury to white matter can impair the brain's communication network and may result in cognitive problems.

Using neuropsychological testing to assess cognitive performance, the researchers found a relationship between the amount of white matter injury and changes in reaction time and the ability to switch between mental tasks.

The results showed that amyloid plaque levels in the posterior cingulate cortex were related to the amount of white matter damage, suggesting that injury to the brain's wiring may be linked to the formation of amyloid plaques.

For the new study, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an MRI technique that measures the integrity of white matter — the brain's signal - transmitting nerve fibers — to see if injuries to the nerves may be the root cause of these post-traumatic depression and anxiety symptoms.

«We now have white matter tracts that allows for faster, more effective communication from one region in the brain to another after injury.»

Her work is designed to help people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), an impairment caused by damage to critical white matter in the brain.

Recent relevant publication: re authors of a recently published study, Genova HM, Rajagopalan V, Chiaravalloti N, Binder A, Deluca J, Lengenfelder J. Facial affect recognition linked to damage in specific white matter tracts in traumatic brain injury, Social Neuroscience, 2015; 10 (1): 27 - 34.

AST - OPC1, an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell population derived from human embryonic stem cells, has been shown in preclinical testing in animals and in vitro to have three potentially reparative functions that address the complex pathologies observed in demyelination disorders, such as spinal cord injuries, and multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis and white matter stroke.

A failure of normal astrocyte generation by CNS precursor cells has been discovered to be a consequence of the mutations that cause Vanishing White Matter leukodystrophy [7], and dysfunction of astrocytes has also been suggested to be of importance in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [8], forebrain ischemic injury [9], epileptic seizures [10], Huntington's disease [11], tuberous sclerosis [12] and Rett syndrome [13].

Migration of hGDAs in white matter was more extensive than in gray matter, with both types of hGDAs showing extensive migration both rostral and caudal to the injury site, with maximum rostral / caudal migration distances of 3.24 mm / 3.96 mm recorded for hGDAsCNTF and 2.52 mm / 2.16 mm recorded for hGDAsBMP respectively.

Montaged images of NeuN immuno - histochemistry at the C5 spinal level of normal (A) and untreated injured (control) spinal cords (B) show that the unilateral DLF transection injury causes loss of NeuN + neurons in multiple spinal cord laminae adjacent to the transected white matter.

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