Sentences with phrase «with damaged brains»

Dirk Keene, a neuropathologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who is working with McKee on another project to quantify the pathological changes in CTE, notes that the fact that men with damaged brains developed symptoms does not prove that the brain pathology caused the symptoms.

«So an implant with existing structure and intrinsic circuitry might integrate» with the damaged brain more effectively and fix it.

I wonder if there are some people with damaged brain (inflamed brain, lesions etc.) function, who would be better off running mainly on ketones...

one of those essays, «Gray Area: Thinking With a Damaged Brain,» by Floyd Skloot, was reprinted in Utne Reader and selected by Robert Atwan for «The Best American Essays 2000» and by editors James Gleick and Jesse Cohen for «The Best American Science Writing 2000.»

Not exact matches

A baby born with brain damage at a hospital in Oahu was confirmed to have been infected by the Zika virus, that state's department of health said.

Of the 399 eligible claims, 124 were deaths and 17 were victims with physical injuries that resulted in quadriplegia, paraplegia, double amputation, permanent brain damage, or pervasive burns.

When Stone's father attempted to sit on it, the tree's rotten trunk gave way and collapsed on him, causing massive brain damage and, with tragic swiftness, brain death.

The worst injury was suffered by Ryan Berntt, a teenager who was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by police, leaving him in a month - long coma and with permanent brain damage.

To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of words.

Even if it doesn't cause brain damage, allowing yourself to multitask will fuel any existing difficulties you have with concentration, organization and attention to detail.

so prayers please, should i stay on disability, and i could whine and moan enough, and i am probably a fool for trying to be anything other than a disabled aids case with a disintegrating back and diabetes and brain damage who should not be testing my luck in nyc.

To complicate things further, young children who suffer brain damage in the left hemisphere often develop language normally, with the right hemisphere picking up the slack.

Moreover, the work contains an extended argument with the «classical» neurology of Hughlings Jackson and Kurt Goldstein, who, according to Sacks, maintained that «the mind, man's glory, lies wholly in the abstract and categorical, and the effect of brain damage... is to cast him out of this high realm into the almost subhuman swamplands of the concrete.»

Reality... Sorry to fail you It turned to have been a small internal bleeding in the personality sector of my brain that had left me unconscious for more than three days in hospital... but thanks to mercy of God and prayers of my family I was able to recover with out any damages what so ever... Any way only today I managed to get an internet line to communicate herewith tonight from Amman, Jordan... It is a pleasant weather here cool and rainy wet...!

Maybe, the gastric flu I have been sick with — and still am — which forced me to keep to my bed, has had a damaging effect on my brain as well.

I might as well be playing pattycake with brain - damaged children, for that is how they act and speak.

Proper thoughts, improper thoughts, sinful thoughts, praiseful thought; theologians, people with brain damage; all are equally loved and matter to God and are welcome to recieve and radiate God's love.

He emerged with minor brain damage, learning disabilities, complex emotional problems and severe behavioral problems.

I think maybe it could be considered reasonable that this may simply be a symptom of senility combined with brain damage.

Some would insist that each life is valuable, others might question whether some children with very severe brain damage are in any real sense capable of human life.

And a soldier that gets hit on the head a lot — even though he may live because he's got his helmet on — he's not going to be much use in battle, and very soon, he will lose his hearing, his sight, his ability to think, and probably will end up with some serious brain damage and maybe die prematurely.

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

The next week, the father again loses his temper and hits the child over the head with a shovel, and the child goes back to the hospital with severe brain damage.

He must have hit you with a very heavy, blunt object and given you brain damage.

Brain - damaged Christian boxer Michael Watson was threatened with acid and suffered cuts and bruises after he was robbed by carjackers, a court has heard.

When one is brain - damaged or not too bright to begin with, taking drugs for diseases, has a disease, I don't think they can be held accountable for being depressed and committing suicide.

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.

My son has congenital brain damage, it means he lives with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, global developmental delays and all the rest.

On the picture to the left, the background shows a hot sauce collection with quite a few well - known products like Dave's Insanity und Crazy Jerry's Brain Damage (the only sauce with a plastic brain on top of the botBrain Damage (the only sauce with a plastic brain on top of the botbrain on top of the bottle).

Damaging your brain at a younger age gives you a important advantage when it comes to dealing with adversity and prepares you for the memory loss and confusion that your likely to experience as a elderly.

This is basically as bad as it gets for the Detroit Lions, especially with all of the lawsuits going around and all of the players that have brain damage because of repeated head trauma.

Update: A new update on Thursday afternoon from the hospital confirmed he has suffered serious trauma with severe brain damage.

The study she read about concluded that 15 percent of those who played only high school football had brain damage associated with CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy).

I suggest rather than get brain damage with all this speculation, we leave the decisions to him and sleep well.

Should get a pretty nice payday for that... also Gaethje needs to earn more per fight since he is going to retire with brain damage and CTE and no medical coverage

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.

Homework into the night, depriving kids of the sleep that they need for optimal brain development, is out of synch with healthy development and therefore damaging.

It's as if they have equated the diagnosis of concussion with doom and a sentence of irrevocable brain damage.»

«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).

The brain can be flooded with stress hormones, and we know that stress hormones can damage sensitive developing nerve tissue.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Because the brain of the young athlete is still developing, with even subtle damage leading to learning deficits adversely affecting development, and with studies showing younger athletes recover more slowly than adults, a more conservative approach to concussions in children and teens than for older athletes is recommended.

I had never heard of this, but according to WebMD, kernicterus «is a very rare type of brain damage that occurs in a newborn with severe jaundice.»

I don't know if we did any «brain damage» but he is more than OK and I'd take whatever P. Leach says about getting your infant to sleep with a grain of salt.

Baby grows and appears to thrive and then suddenly dies or ends up with permanent brain damage.

I didn't breast or bottle feed my daughter, she was tube fed and still is after suffering catastrophic brain damage at birth following a lack of oxygen in my labour, leaving her with severe cerebral palsy.

Doctors also determined Amelia suffered a stroke in the womb that affected a quarter of her brain, damage that likely would cause lifelong difficulties with motor skills and speech.

Modeling ADHD - type arousal with unilateral frontal cortex damage in rats and beneficial effects of play therapy, Brain and Cognition.

Why, he argues, is the sport permitting players «with brain damage to be put back on the rugby field?»

I knew it was great luck that she survived and with no brain damage.