Sentences with phrase «with white matter damage»

Not exact matches

The authors went on to study young mice with white - matter nerve damage similar to that seen in premature babies.

Their findings indicate a pattern of white matter damage and gray matter atrophy associated with this specific impairment of social cognition after TBI.

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

DTI has been shown to be a more sensitive method of measuring white matter damage and may provide images that better correlate with cognitive dysfunction.

A second grant funds a pilot study using diffuser tensor imaging to identify whether damage to the brain's white matter correlates with cognitive decline in individuals with MS. Dr. Genova's aim is to develop more effective strategies for maintaining cognition and quality of life.

This study indicates microstructural damage of the cerebellar white matter in familial cortical myoclonic tremor with epilepsy.

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.

When white matter is damaged, the injured cells die and decay, leaving spaces in the brain that fill with fluid.

But research increasingly shows that when the «white matter» that ties the gray stuff together is damaged or deficient — as it can be in patients with brain trauma, autism and schizophrenia — goal - directed task performance can be very poor.