The phrase "a devastating impairment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a severe or significant loss of function or ability, often in a medical or psychological context.
Example: "The accident resulted in a devastating impairment that changed his life forever."
Alternatives: "a severe disability" or "a crippling condition".
Thus, damage to the PFC, or disconnection of the frontal cortex from the inferotemporal cortex (where complex visual information is represented), produces a devastating impairment in scene learning.
In a very different task, discrimination learning set, frontal-inferotemporal disconnection also produces a devastating impairment (Browning et al., 2007), because performance in this task requires the formation of prospective memories, which are also representations of temporally complex events.
Both cognitive and neurological impairment is a devastating problem for patients affected by the severe form of MPSII.
TSCI leads to a motor, sensitive, and vegetative impairment [1] with a devastating impact on the patient and on the society [2].
Alzheimer disease (AD), first described as "presenile dementia" by the German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906, is a devastating disease characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration, as well as impairments in behavior, language, and visuospatial skills.
Neural damage is a devastating outcome of physical trauma.
AD is a devastating neurodegenerative illness that is characterized by a profound impairment of cognitive function, marked physical disability, and an enormous economic burden on the afflicted individual, caregivers, and society in general.
18 27 At the start of the twenty-first century, developing countries face a double crisis: a devastating burden of disease (90% of those with visual impairment live in LMICs), 28 and inadequate health systems to deal with them.
HAND, varying in severity from an asymptomatic to a mild neurocognitive impairment and in its most serious form a devastating dementia (HIV-associated dementia), develops in a subset of individuals infected with HIV-1.
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition of CNS that often results in severe functional impairments for which there are no restorative therapies.
