Thomas Moore thrives on sad cases like that of Lorin Campos, who was born brain damaged in 1989.
It was in the same month Brandon was born severely brain damaged.
It made a public service announcement video about a teenager who was brain damaged from texting while driving and got over 600, 000 views.
"When we were told that Ollie was severely brain damaged and unlikely to live more than a couple of hours we were devastated, " said Mr Lewis.
Munn's attorneys say she suffered insect bites that led to tick-borne encephalitis in 2007 when she was in the ninth grade, leaving her unable to speak and brain damaged.
But the real appeal for today's moviegoers may be the trauma suffered by Johnny's beefy pal Buzz (Bendix, again in top form), an enlisted man brain damaged in the war.
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On January 20th Mrs Inglis was convicted of murdering her 22-year-old, brain-damaged son, Thomas.
While still a student, he became increasingly successful as a recreational therapist for hyperactive and brain-damaged children.
With a brain injury, functioning may be impaired depending on what area of the brain was damaged, Francisco said.
Meanwhile, the brain-damaged investors had no such inhibitions and approached each new investment opportunity without being rattled by prior losses.
In 2008, Robert Hughes, from Croydon, was stabbed with a broken bottle and had his head stamped on, leaving him brain-damaged.
She homed in on the ability of brain-damaged people to acquire skills.
Giacino, Fridman and a handful of other neurologists and rehabilitation experts are striving desperately to improve the odds for such severely brain-damaged patients.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal to restore a Florida law specifically designed to keep a severely brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo, alive on a feeding tube.
Gisela was left severely brain-damaged and in a vegetative state.
Mr Bush's decision to intervene in the Schiavo case annoyed both defenders of states' rights and the business lobby, which regarded the battle over the dying brain-damaged woman in Florida as a distraction.
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When MP3 rolled around and Sony's walkman customers were clamoring for a solid-state MP3 player, Sony let its music business-unit run its show: instead of making a high-capacity MP3 walkman, Sony shipped its Music Clips, low-capacity devices that played brain-damaged DRM formats like Real and OpenAG.
It turns out that brain cells called neurons that are next to damaged brain areas can reconnect pathways between other neurons, forming new circuits that can resume some of the lost function.
However, brain scans also showed that fewer brain lesions, damaged areas of tissue, formed in patients given the drug.
The study on 185 people also hinted that patients given the drug developed fewer regions of damaged brain tissue.
Then those cells would be turned into neurons, which would then be used to replace the patient's own damaged brain cells.
With the right stimulation, they can be persuaded to churn out new nerve cells, and these cells can then be popped back into the damaged brain.
Alternatively, so-called "mirror neurons, " located on the opposite side of the brain from the damaged area, can become involved in roles that the injured region used to have, he said.
It is not just the brain that may be damaged after a long career on the playing field.
Deprived for so long of oxygen, her brain had been fatally damaged.
His family filed a wrongful-death suit against the NFL, claiming the league didn't do enough to prevent or treat the concussions that severely damaged his brain.
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In particular, he has a patient called Elliot (in neuroscience, patients are often referred to by single names or initials to preserve their privacy) whose frontal lobe was damaged by a brain tumour.
This chemical cascade, called the Wnt pathway, is turned on when organisms are injured, and it could in theory be used to make stem cells that are already present in the heart, brain and other organs regenerate damaged tissue.
If a person with anorexia becomes severely malnourished, every organ in the body can be damaged, including the brain, heart and kidneys.
He was deeply pained when he spoke with the family members of a talkative professor who was rendered speechless when the implant damaged the region of his brain that controls speech.
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