Sentences with phrase «with brain conditions»

It is paramount that we realize that with chronic disease as a whole, and specifically with brain conditions like Alzheimer's, that prevention is the best medicine.

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He eventually plans to merge his robotics brain with clothing design to put sensors into apparel that both could measure a person's vital signs and the conditions of his or her surroundings.

This appears to be the first US case of a baby born with microcephaly, a condition in which the brain is abnormally small, after having a Zika infection.

By working with scientists who specialize in the brain and the immune system, Kelley hopes to find out what these conditions have in common so the team can eventually figure out what causes them.

There's no equivalent diagnostic for disorders of the brain — a shortfall that's made it difficult for millions of people with conditions ranging from anxiety to obsessive - compulsive disorder to get treatment.

The condition, in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains, is estimated to cost $ 10 million over the lifetime of one child.

Is the human intellectual concept of personhood applied to an anencephelic fetus, and which ones with all the various genetic variations of the condition where the fetus has no brain, or part of a brain?

Anencephaly is a condition in which an infant is born with a fully or partially functioning brain stem but without any cerebral hemispheres (higher brain).

If conditions on Earth were different, we would be different — perhaps even better, though, with stronger bodies, fewer tendencies to disease and larger brains to figure out answers more easily and completely.

I find it amazing that so many brain dead idiots who claim there is no God... or that he's ok with all facets of the human condition... come to an article «The Christian Case for Gay Marriage»...

They describe his condition as exceptionally rare, with catastrophic and irreversible brain damage.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

His parents confirmed that Charlie had died in a hospice yesterday after a long battle with an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and muscle weakness.

IT started with dry heaving, then pain and headaches, ending with a man in hospital with a temporary brain condition.

What sent them was the slow realization by parents that Pop Warner football could be the gateway drug that leads their promising, unblemished child to an adulthood with a degenerative brain condition.

The problem with jaundice is that if you let bilirubin levels get too high without managing them, the baby can get severe, irreversible brain damage from a condition known as kernicterus.

Landon was diagnosed with hypernatremic dehydration (a high concentration of sodium in the blood), cardiac arrest from hypovolemic shock (a condition where the liquid portion of the blood is dangerously low), and hypoxic - ischemic encephalopathy (a brain injury caused by oxygen deprivation).

The more people see something the more they grow comfortable with it and their brain is then conditioned to find it the norm.

Another great resource I discovered that deals directly with the human condition is a website I came across recently which addresses the «dark side» of our human condition that is a result of a biological struggle between our instinctive brain and our intellect.

However, management of the condition (with diet and possibly medication) allows your baby's brain to develop normally.

It's been shown to lower the risk of having a baby with a neural tube defect like spina bifida, a serious condition in which the brain and spinal cord don't form normally.

For parents seeking a resource to help their children with any of the conditions or challenges mentioned in this article, Brain Gym is a win - win - win.

Many conditions may relate to neurological impairment, including central nervous system immaturity, pre and postnatal brain injury, Down's syndrome, cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus, which are all associated with various feeding problems.

The condition can have many effects on sufferers including children born with abnormal facial features and lifelong learning and behavioural problems, caused by damage to the developing brain and central nervous system.

Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat dozens of diseases and are being tested in FDA - regulated clinical trials to help people with autism, brain injury, and other conditions.

People with severe head injuries like the one that left Michael Schumacher in critical condition have permanently altered brains that make the victims more likely to become mentally ill and die prematurely, scientists said on Wednesday.

But the formula in his first hours with such a condition prevented profound brain - damage and I am forever grateful for it.

Analyses of brain activity also revealed that we are more likely to use this type of shallow processing under conditions of higher cognitive load - that is, when the task we are faced with is more difficult or when we are dealing with more than one task at a time.

The possibility that the Zika virus causes microcephaly — unusually small heads and damaged brains — emerged only in October 2015, when doctors in northern Brazil noticed a surge in babies with the condition.

Health officials on Friday reported the first baby born in New York City with the Zika - related birth defect known as microcephaly, a condition marked by an abnormally small head and impaired brain development.

Tiny balls of brain tissue made from donated stem cells from children with autism or a condition that makes them hyper - sociable show intriguing differences

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that immune system activation during pregnancy and right at birth can cause alterations in the brain's neural circuits during young adulthood that are consistent with behavioral symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilBrain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilbrain tumors or epilepsy.

Spread by mosquitos and through sexual intercourse, Zika virus has also been linked to babies being born with small heads and brains — a condition called microcephaly.

Brains of individuals who died with Huntington's, Parkinson's or no neurological condition were analyzed using sequencing technology that provides a data readout of the activity of all genes in the genome.

However, pregnant women in Brazil infected with Zika have given birth to babies with small heads and underdeveloped brains, a condition called microcephaly.

And even if the patient doesn't meet the conditions that guidelines say can benefit most from brain imaging — for instance, someone with an abnormal neurological exam or a known cancer — doctors might order a scan at a patient's request to protect themselves legally.

However, when they closely examined the effects on the brain of conditioning rodents with a mild foot shock, the scientists found several messenger RNAs recruited to polyribosomes in the medial prefrontal cortex — a clear indication of new protein synthesis there.

«I am especially worried about messing with the brain chemistry of people with depression, ADHD, or other conditions that may be made worse by neuroactive chemicals.»

Conditions that cause the brain's receptors to stop functioning properly are often mistaken for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder because these diseases are associated with a decrease in activity of the NMDA receptors, which control how someone thinks, makes decisions, and perceives the world around them.

The team played tones in a range of frequencies, except those that caused tinnitus, to seven rats with the condition while stimulating their vagus nerve, a cranial nerve known to affect brain plasticity.

The fear conditioning experiments, done with live rats, showed that individual neurons in the amygdala, the emotional hub of the brain, that were initially capable of telling apart safe from dangerous stimuli can start firing indiscriminately — causing the rat to become fearful of non-threatening stimuli.

«We already have brain implants for people with Parkinson's disease and computerized implants for other conditions such as deafness and epilepsy,» he says.

With tiny brains and force of numbers, social insects have achieved most of the things we consider quintessentially human — farming, warfare, air conditioning — and have taken over the world.

The world abounds with anecdotal attacks of baby brain and placenta dementia (a name that both entertains and offends me), but are the conditions real?

Their research technique of measuring electrical brain activity using an electroencephalogram (EEG) in these brain regions also predicted mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition that is likely to develop into Alzheimer's, with 80 per cent accuracy.

What's more, several studies suggest that some people with schizophrenia seem to have more active microglia — immune cells found in the brain — than people without the condition.

To conduct the study, the researchers recorded motor cortical brain activity of two research participants with the degenerative neurological condition called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

«The self - expansion activities yielded significantly greater activation in a major reward region of the brain, which is associated with addictive behaviors, than did non-expanding conditions.