In my book, I argue that we should instead grasp the neuroethical nettles that threaten to choke the growth of the new field neurocriminology, recognize that there is more to crime than bad environments, and attack the brain basis to violence.
Another is that something else causes the lesions, and the tau protein is the brain's defence against that attack.
The cloned cells would be genetically identical to the patient's own, so they could replace part of an ailing brain or heart without touching off a full-scale attack from the patient's immune system.
Roughly 25, 000 Americans are stuck in a vegetative state as a result of suffering brain damage from a car accident or other trauma, or after their brain has been deprived of oxygen following a stroke or heart attack.
In lupus the body's immune system turns on itself and produces "autoantibodies" that attack the joints, skin, kidneys, heart and brain.
However this year the family will be in America where Ruby is receiving special treatment following a major heart attack in April 2010 which left her with a life-changing brain injury.
Malala had become deaf when gunfire from the attack broke the delicate bones that help turn sound into sensory impulses to the brain.
The specialist who works at one of London's heart attack centers said there would now be concern about whether the young footballer had suffered brain damage.
"I had my first heart attack aged 39, (have had) three more since then and three big brain operations for eight aneurysms, which they reckon is some kind of record too, " he said.
Their goal is to buy time after a car accident, gunshot wound or massive heart attack to get a person into the hospital and into surgery before they die or suffer extensive brain damage.
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