In some states in Brazil where Zika virus has been circulating in recent months, there has been a marked increase in cases of newborns with microcephaly, a condition that causes abnormal brain development, which can occur in the womb or during infancy.
Appropriate levels of thyroid hormones are critical to the development of various organs, especially the brain, which occurs during fetal growth and childhood (Howdeshell 2002; Zoeller et al. 2002).
A postmortem found he had suffered a hypoxic brain injury, which occurs when the brain is starved of oxygen, jurors heard on the second day of the inquest.
This lab experience illustrates the organizational effect of gonadal steroids on brain development (Breedlove and Hampson, 2002), which occurs in early life during a critical/sensitive period and persists for the lifetime of the individual (Phoenix et al., 1959; Breedlove and Hampson, 2002).
In particular, microglia regulates neuronal death which occurs normally during brain development [4], as well as synaptogenesis (for review, [5]).
Recent reports16,17 suggest that microglia mediate synaptic pruning, which occurs as a normal part of brain development and might become dysfunctional in Alzheimer's disease.
Central sleep apnea, which occurs when your brain doesn't send proper signals to the muscles that control breathing.
It was a hemorrhagic stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel bursts in the brain.
The brain interprets the social pain of rejection in the same manner as physical pain which occurs in the body.
Third, the effects observed are dependent on both the drug's mechanism of action and the period of brain development during which exposure occurs.
