Sentences with phrase «with stroke damage»

Dr. Gerretsen devised the idea of using this test for schizophrenia based on research in paralyzed patients with stroke damage who lacked awareness of their paralysis.

However, when the D1 receptor was inhibited, alcohol - seeking behavior in individuals with stroke damage decreased significantly while the control group didn't exhibit much of a change.

Not exact matches

These stories deal with the problems of living with Alzheimer's Disease or stroke damage, the abuse of the elderly by their children, nursing home horror stories, the cost of long - term care, and the problems of those who must work, care for their children, and also care for elderly relatives.

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.

Nonetheless, Sonntag plans to study whether short - term therapy with either hormone might protect people against cognitive damage from stroke without causing cancer.

According to lightning records, storms that had absorbed the smoke zapped the ground with three times the usual number of positively charged lightning strokes, which typically last longer than negatively charged ones and can inflict worse damage.

The study looked at 7,470 patients with PAD who took part in the COMPASS study, and found the combination reduced heart attacks, stroke or cardiovascular death by 28 per cent and damage to limbs by 46 percent.

These conditions are associated with high blood sugar, which can damage the vessels that supply blood to vital organs and can also increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.

When the researchers then induced stroke in mice either with or without the PARP gene, they found that the resulting tissue damage in the mice without the enzyme was 80 % less than in normal mice.

The team is also using tongue stimulation to treat patients with vision loss, stroke damage and Parkinson's.

Dr. Paul R. Sanberg, Distinguished University Professor, a co-author of the paper, concluded that «these novel data showing BSCB damage in subacute and chronic ischemic stroke may lead to development of new therapeutic approaches for patients with ischemic cerebral infarction.»

Workers at Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed 50 patients with stroke caused by arterial blockage who also had elevated levels of enzymes released by damaged cardiac muscle.

A significant proportion of people with brain damage that has been caused by a stroke or accident suffer from disrupted executive functions: for them, actions that consist of several steps and require planning are difficult.

He adds that the research could potentially open avenues for helping people who have body - perception disorders, such as stroke victims with damage to the self - sensing part of the brain, regain awareness of their forgotten limbs.

Monkeys treated with the PSD - 95 inhibitor one hour after stroke had 55 per cent less damaged tissue in the brain after 24 hours and 70 per cent less after 30 days, compared with those that took a placebo.

In stroke patients with right hemisphere damage, cold water temporarily led to awareness of their paralysis.

If such a treatment can be developed, it would address the single biggest concern of stroke victims, as well as those with chronic spinal cord damage.

Previous studies have not looked at pre-existing signs of damage nor considered analysing multiple signs in combination, yet having multiple and old signs are both very common in patients with stroke.»

Struggling to balance on one leg for 20 seconds or longer was linked to an increased risk for small blood vessel damage in the brain and reduced cognitive function in otherwise healthy people with no clinical symptoms, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke.

Next, Bertolero said, he and his co-authors plan to look into why evolution built a brain with distinct networks and connector hubs, precisely how connector hubs integrate and coordinate, and what happens when they are damaged by a stroke, for example.

Experts were concerned that patients with early brain tissue damage — which can be difficult for stroke doctors to see — were more likely to suffer a brain bleed if they were treated with alteplase.

It had previously been thought that giving the drug to people with signs of early damage in the brain caused by a stroke would increase the chances of them suffering a bleed on the brain — which can be fatal.

Researchers have even begun to test whether hydrogen sulfide can protect us against the damage associated with heart attacks and strokes (Science, 30 May 2008, p. 1155).

A stroke can cause permanent damage to important parts of the brain, with the result that many stroke survivors require lifelong care and support.

â $ œWe have found neuroprotective compounds that can limit damage to the brain during ischemia associated with stroke and other brain injuries, but have minimal side effects, â $ says senior author Stephen Traynelis, PhD, professor of pharmacology at Emory University School of Medicine.

With the loss of the cushioning effect provided by free - moving collagen in the blood vessels, the force of the surge of blood that is driven into the arteries by the pumping action of the heart is carried directly to organs like the kidneys and the brain, damaging to the structures that filter our blood and that connect the functional regions of our brain, and putting us at risk of a stroke.

Working with Ye, postdoctoral fellow Sung - Wuk Jang identified a compound called 7,8 - dihydroxyflavone that can duplicate BDNFâ $ ™ s effects on neurons and can protect them against damage in animal models of seizure, stroke and Parkinsonâ $ ™ s disease.

Two patients, both with right hemianopia after occipital stroke damage were included in this study.

Despite the impact of activities of daily living, few studies have explored the nature of reading deficits and their association with brain damage from stroke.

«The faster a person with a stroke is treated, the greater the chance for recovery or minimal damage,» said Nash.

However, a more thorough analysis of the data revealed that the risk was being driven by women with signs of cerebrovascular disease — either a previous stroke or signs of white matter damage in their brains.

The problem with that: Smokers with diabetes face higher risk for heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, vision problems, and nerve damage and reduced blood flow to the legs and feet that can lead to slow - healing sores, infections and even amputation.

Doctors have known for some time that the confusion and memory loss caused by the brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's can also be caused by other types of brain changes, such as tissue damage stemming from strokes.

Homocysteine is a dangerous molecule that is directly damaging to blood vessel walls, and high levels of it are associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

Alpha lipoic acid is a potent antioxidant with many positive effects, including preventing stroke damage and protecting the nerve cells of diabetics — but its protective properties are especially active in the brain.

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Studies show that supplementation with B - complex vitamins reduces damage after strokes, while reducing brain shrinkage in subjects with mild cognitive impairment.

In this way Acetyl - L - Carnitine, like many other antioxidants, slows down ageing process and reduces risk of various associated with damaging effects of free radicals health problems including cancer, heart attack, stroke, fatigue or conditions caused by weak immune system.

Too much homocysteine can damage blood vessel walls, and high levels of it are associated with increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

In one study, rats with their melatonin - producing pineal glands surgically removed had greater brain damage after strokes and seizures than rats with adequate melatonin levels.

Set in a picturesque Irish town, the film begins with the return to the family stead of Conor (Edward MacLiam), a 38 - year - old carpenter and father of two who's suffered a damaging stroke, leaving him severely mentally restricted.

With heat stroke, damage to the body can be irreversible.

* 1 Raj Vasan (SA Best) platform includes: a ban on all new climate - damaging projects in SA as soon as safe - climate alternatives are available * 2 Stephanie Stewart (Greens) platform includes: We are in a climate emergency, with climate impacts already causing heat stroke, starvation, loss of life, and ecosystem destruction.

Fossil Fuel is a generic term that isn't quite correct Natural Gasoline is a distilled derivative of oil but almost all ofit is manufactured from cracked and recombined oil derivativeswhile natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damaged.

A few years ago, when I was first launched into becoming the amateur investigator of what's up with whatsupwiththat, and the flood of really well crafted (certainly not done by ignorant people) anonymous emails conveying little known proof of Obama's secret Islamitude, and other lies that would damage Rush Limbaugh's reputation if he were to personally deliver them... Ah Say, Ah Say (Foghorn Leghorn accent) when I was first launched into all that, from reading prodigious comment - storms in many places, including judithcurry.com, but also invading more liberal venues, I concluded what we have here is less a movement for anything, than a massively stroked and stoked «Great Liberal Hating and Baiting Cult», with a very big self - organizing component, but definitely nourished in all sorts of ways by the folks you can read about in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Meyer (best book yet of its class and I've read many).

With the stroke of a pen the technocrats quietly absolved government of all responsibility to reduce emissions from some of the most obvious and most tractable sources of pollution in the land: the fossil - fuel devouring power stations and factories whose smokestacks belch millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year — not to mention huge amounts of other pollutants which damage our health more directly than CO2.

Unfortunately, defamation laws were developed in an era when people didn't have the ability to publish reputation - damaging material to the world with the stroke of the «enter» key.

They may suffer widespread brain damage, with paralysis, fits or a stroke.