Sentences with phrase «with impaired brain function»

Without a bystander using AED shock therapy, 70 percent of cardiac arrest patients either died or survived with impaired brain function.

In adults, elevated blood mercury levels are associated with impaired brain function [pdf], and acute mercury poisoning has been documented in people who consumed substantial amounts of high - mercury seafood in a short period of time.

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(Surviving the First Three Months with a Newborn) Stress causes our bodies to release a hormone called cortisol which, when present for prolonged periods, can dramatically undermine brain development in babies and permanently impair brain function for life.

Although the PAM compound enhanced the effects of the endocannabinoids the study found that it did not cause unwanted side effects associated with cannabis — such as impaired motor functions or lowered body temperature — because its effect is highly targeted in the brain.

A new study performed in the Netherlands has linked exposure to residential air pollution during fetal life with brain abnormalities that may contribute to impaired cognitive function in school - age children.

«In previous research, we showed that patients with Parkinson's disease use cognitive function, which is reflected in activation of the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, to compensate for impaired motor function,» Prof. Hausdorff says.

The push to prevent skin cancer may have come with unintended consequences — impaired brain function because of a deficiency of vitamin D.

Other studies identified additional ways to make the brain more resistant to amyloid - beta peptides that impair neuronal function as they build up in brains of those with Alzheimer's.

What actually happens is that leptin function becomes impaired in people with excess weight and the signal to their brain doesn't get through which means that the brain doesn't realize that there are already enough deposits of energy.

Impaired brain function — again, children drinking 3ppm of fluoride have an IQ with 5 less points than average.

The brains of Alzheimer's patients are dotted with these plaques, which likely impair with adjacent neuron function, causing long term damage.

Although reduced brain volumes are commonly associated with impaired function, 35 the groups who improved cognitive executive function and muscular function in our study also had brain volume reductions.

Brain experts have shown that many of the factors associated with living in poverty cause «toxic stress;» which impairs, among other things, the development of their executive function, making it difficult for children to concentrate, remember and control impulses.

In contrast, interference of high CO2 with brain neurotransmitter functions is the primary cause of such impaired behaviour in experiments simulating future ocean acidification.