Sentence examples for attributed to a dysfunction from inspiring English sources

This is attributed to a dysfunction of the cognitive loop linking the prefrontal cortex to basal ganglia.

As the human cerebral cortex does not contain cholinergic or noradrenergic neurons, these transmitter deficiencies were correctly attributed to a dysfunction in the ascending cholinergic and noradrenergic innervation of the cortex arising in the basal nucleus of Meynert [ 18, 19] and locus coeruleus, respectively.

Having previously been told of her abysmal standardized test scores from the GRE graduate school exam, a past professor made the startling discovery that her old academic struggles were directly attributed to a physical dysfunction.

The observed deficit can be attributed to a specific dysfunction of a previously identified left-hemispheric frontoparietal neural network.

In summary, the impaired abstract thinking may be attributed to a frontal dysfunction while the perceptual learning deficits may be related to a pre-attention sensory gating deficit which is either a temporal or a fronto-temporal mechanism.

Thus, this isolated deficit may be attributed to a specific dysfunction of the mainly left-hemispheric premotor-parietal brain system that has been shown to underlie the articulatory rehearsal mechanism of human verbal working memory [ 16].

36 Decremental motor responses to RNS in ALS has usually been attributed to a neuromuscular transmission dysfunction caused by "immaturity" of newly reinnervated structures.

The causes of such cognitive decline can be attributed to a progressive synaptic dysfunction and the subsequent loss of neurons; this loss seems to be located in many vulnerable regions of the brain: mainly neocortex, limbic system, and the subcortical regions [ 66].

Meanwhile motor symptoms of postural instability and gait difficulty in Parkinson's disease are attributed to dysfunction in a brainstem cholinergic nucleus, the pedunculopontine nucleus (Fling et al., 2013).

Recently, cardiovascular abnormalities attributed to parasympathetic dysfunction have been reported in a community exposed to mercury living near to an industrial complex in Korea [ 21].

Human senile osteoporosis is generally characterized by low bone mass and altered microarchitectural features, primarily attributed to osteoblast dysfunction, which results in a substantially increased risk of fracture and subsequent disability (Kassem and Marie, 2011; Marie and Kassem, 2011a; Marie and Kassem, 2011b).