Sentence examples for brain ailment from inspiring English sources

Under rare circumstances, that illness can be transmitted to people, causing a fatal brain ailment.

The disease, a degenerative brain ailment, is thought to take at least four years to incubate.

Scientists believe the disease is linked to a variant of a human brain ailment, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

The disease, a degenerative brain ailment known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is believed to take at least four years to incubate.

Stricken with Alzheimer's disease, the British author Terry Pratchett, 59, has donated $1 million toward research into this debilitating brain ailment, Agence France-Presse reported.

He had suffered from hallucinations and jerky movements that resembled Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a brain ailment in the same family as mad-cow disease.

Danielle McGriskin Charity Ambassador Four years ago doctors diagnosed Danielle from Lisburn, Northern Ireland with a brain tumour and water on the brain, ailments she nicknamed 'Annie and Heidi'.

He gave these deviant proteins an exotic name, prions (pronounced PREE-ons), and established that they cause a rare class of degenerative brain ailments: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for one and, more important, bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

But go wrong it sometimes does, with ruinous consequences for the lives of both the sufferer and his family and friends.Some brain ailments, such as Alzheimer's disease, leave visible scars in the organ's fabric.

The premature deaths and degenerative brain ailments reported in former N.F.L. stars and N.H.L. enforcers have made athletes in all sports more aware of the frightening consequences of trying to tough it out and compete with a concussion.

Experts say the findings, reported in the February American Journal of Neuroradiology, underscore the problem of delivering drugs against a variety of brain ailments such as stroke, brain tumors, and neurodegenerative diseases.