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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"brain damage"”.
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Clincal Aspects of Biological Brain Damage Markers
Biomarkers for organ damage and/or dysfuntion are used in almost all areas of medicine. The brain has eluded this technological development for some time. Recently, the S100B protein has been shown to be a promising marker of brain damage. However, before S100S can reach clinical reality, several …
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Cognitive and Perceptual-Motor Indicators of Lateralized vs. Diffuse Brain Damage in Adults.
… assessment are to detect the presence of brain damage, localize which areas of the brain may be dysfunctional and describe subsequent functional impairments. The sensitivity of neuropsychological instruments in carrying out these functions is a question of some debate. The purpose of this …
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Pragmatic ability in children with early onset brain damage and children with pragmatic language impairnent
… related abilities in children with early-onset brain damage, i.e. children with cerebral palsy (CP) and children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus (SBH), and in a group of children with pragmatic language impairment (PLI). In study I and III children with CP, SBH and PLI were compared. In …
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Alcohol-Related Brain Damage: A Delphi Consensus Study and the Development and Pretesting of a Novel Screening Tool
Alcohol-Related Brain Damage (ARBD) remains under-recognised within UK health and social care services despite evidence that early identification and intervention can improve outcomes. Identification is currently reliant on non-specific cognitive measures or informal clinical judgement, with no …
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An investigation of knowledge among counselor educators, educators in clinical psychology, and psychiatrists regarding selected aspects of brain damage
… and psychiatrists regarding selected aspects of brain damage. Areas explored included knowledge of soft signs, knowledge of pertinent standardized tests and other methods of assessing brain damage, and kinds of referral sources. The specific intention of collecting the data was to provide …
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The Bender Gestalt and Symbol Digit Modalities Tests as Cerebral Dysfunction Screening Instruments :a Comparative Evaluation
… authors to determine presence or absence of brain damage in the sample subjects. The frequencies of correct diagnoses for both tests, and for the combination of the two tests by adding the scores together, were compared by means of the Chi-square statistic for correlated samples.</p> …
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The utility of the McCarron-Dial System in determining location of brain lesion.
… assessment are to detect the presence of brain damage, localize which areas of the brain may be dysfunctional, and describe subsequent functional impairments. The sensitivity of neuropsychological instruments in carrying out these functions has long been a question of debate. The purpose …
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Glucosensing, Hypoglycemia, and the Brain
… hallmarks of Type 2 diabetes. Within the brain, specialized glucose sensing neurons regulate whole body glucose homeostasis. Unlike GLUT4's role in the periphery, brain GLUT4 regulation of glucose tolerance is not well defined. Understanding how brain glucose sensing, mediated by GLUT4, …
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The Victoria emotion recognition test
Emotional disorders are common in people with brain damage. It is often difficult to determine whether such disorders are a result of a deficit in recognition, expression, or regulation of emotion due to brain damage per se, or if they are reactive to other functional limitations. The Victoria …
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LRRK2 Regulates Actin Dynamics in ADP-Treated Microglia
… death in the substantia nigra. Microglia are brain macrophages that continuously survey the microenvironment of the brain to find out and repair brain damage. Although PD associated genes are expressed in microglia, their roles in these cells are largely unknown. The present study revealed …
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Cluster analysis of learning disabled and brain damaged children and adolescents using psycho-educational, neuropsychological and behavioral variables
… emotional problems and/or documented evidence of brain damage have often been systematically omitted from samples used for research exploring the elusive topic of learning disabilities. Previous conceptualizations of LD and attempts to define the same may have been premature in forming these …
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Alternative Neuropsychological and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures in Multiple Sclerosis: Exploring the relation between brain lesion measured by diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging and interhemispheric communication and processing speed in multiple sclerosis
… by demyelination of the white matter in the brain and central cord. MS may involve degeneration of white matter throughout the nervous system, with a predilection for specific target zones that includes the corpus callosum. The pathologic process may lead to motor problems, but halve of the …
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Cardiac arrest and therapeutic hypothermia: Prognosis and outcome
… They either had multimodal signs of extensive brain damage (high NSE levels, ischemic changes on MRI or neurophysiological evidence of advanced brain damage (bilateral lack of SSEP)), or showed sustained unconsciousness and a status epilepticus aEEG-pattern. Unconscious patients without these …
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Seeing Inside a Concussion: The Role of Microglia in Maintaining the Blood-Brain Barrier in Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury, is a common type of brain injury that can cause significant debilitating symptoms despite no evidence of brain damage on common diagnostic imaging modalities. Repetitive concussion has recently come into focus in the public eye and among scientists as …
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The functional and neural basis of belief and desire reasoning
… compare the performance of adults with acquired brain damage in belief and desire reasoning tasks, and I suggest the existence of two separate processes in desire reasoning: one linked to self-perspective inhibition and one linked to the reasoning about avoidance desires. In Chapters 3 and 4 I …
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Take two notes and call me in the morning : the science of music therapy
… disease or some kind of mobility loss caused by brain damage. Parkinson's disease attacks a person's motor system, and RAS gait training re-stimulates the motor system with music, specifically sound with rhythmic qualities. MIT is used to treat certain kinds of speech loss caused by brain damage …
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Developing appropriate Fetal Alchohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention initiatives within a rural community in South Africa
… context. Prenatal alcohol exposure may result in brain damage that affects behaviors of those affected. The beliefs, norms, values and perceptions of mothers regarding alcohol consumption are also an important aspect in maintaining healthy pregnancies.
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