Clots can form in the pouch and travel to the brain, causing a stroke.
She's now broke and suffering cognitive impairment following brain surgery and a stroke in 2011, prosecutors said.
If you should suffer a stroke, brain surgery to repair your condition and restore you to a normal life would be out of the question.
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While the drug industry has tested dozens of compounds to treat the acute phases of stroke and brain trauma, only a few medicines for lifting patients out of vegetative states have been brought into large-scale trials.
In animal tests Guilford's PARP inhibitors can reduce stroke-induced brain damage by up to 70%.
In animal tests Guilford's PARP inhibitors reduce stroke-induced brain damage by up to 70%.
Tests in primates had suggested NA-1 prevented brain cells dying when a stroke starved them of oxygen.
She overdosed, bled into her brain, suffered a debilitating stroke and eventually died.
Much of the brain damage suffered during a stroke is caused by the release of so-called "free radical" molecules.
Now there's more good news: Scientists from Johns Hopkins University have concluded that red wine may also protect the brain from damage after a stroke and even provide some prophylactic protection before an individual is hit with this dreaded affliction.
The targets are brain molecules that seem to be involved in causing a deadly hyperactivity that depletes brain cells of energy after a stroke.
LONDON, England -- A Australian electrical engineer is developing a portable brain scanner that could help prevent people from suffering brain damage after they have a stroke.
As for whether it works for sharpening the brain or minimizing damage from a stroke "the jury is out, " says Catherine Ulbricht, co-founder of Natural Standard Research Collaboration, a Cambridge, Mass.
Using a database of patients with brain injuries kept by researchers at the University of Iowa, they found five patients in whom the relevant brain areas had been destroyed by stroke or other injuries.
While a deeper understanding of neuro-plasticity is extremely relevant for people who have suffered from a stroke or other traumatic brain injury, what has piqued my interest most is its application for those of us whose brains already work perfectly well.
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Google told him he suffered from numerous conditions he never had, including brain metastases, aortic aneurysm and a stroke.
Vickers's research revealed how the neural processes associated with the quiet eye help the brain organize itself to make a good stroke while simultaneously overriding competing neural processes responsible for distractions and anxiety.
Osofsky-McGonigle had aphasia, a common outcome of stroke in which parts of the brain related to language, including reading, writing and talking, are damaged.
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.
Just as the shooting already has raised issues about the tenor of public debates, it could raise awareness of a lack of readily available cognitive and other rehabilitation for people with brain injuries, including shootings, accidents and stroke.
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Designed for stroke patients and those suffering from brain or spinal cord injuries, these so-called medical micropower networks (MMN) use a set of implanted electrodes and a wearable wireless controller to stimulate the muscles of a paralyzed user.
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Speaking to BBC News online, Prof Buchan said the focus of this research was on "ways to keep brain cells alive" which could have impacts beyond stroke - such as in Alzheimer's disease and spinal cord injuries.
Sudden injuries, though, such as a stroke, simply happen too quickly for the brain to react.
Low doses appeared to offer some protection against stroke damage - reducing the area of the brain affected by 30%.
In 2004 Concentric Medical of Mountain View, Calif. unveiled one of the first devices to treat stroke, a kind of corkscrew for the brain.
Besides stroke, he says, drugs aimed at the new targets could prove useful for treating spinal cord injuries, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, even epilepsy--because the same toxic cascade that occurs after a stroke also happens after many other types of brain damage.
Besides stroke, Dr. Suzdak says, drugs aimed at the new targets could prove useful for treating spinal cord injuries, Lou Gehrig's disease or even epilepsy--because the same toxic cascade that occurs after a stroke also happens after many other types of brain damage.
The resulting effects of the stroke vary enormously depending on which area of the brain is affected.
For the first time, a drug appears to have prevented some of the brain damage and disability associated with the most common type of stroke.
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