Sentence examples for brain impairment from inspiring English sources

In his defense, Dr. Zarkin's lawyers say he has a brain impairment similar to Alzheimer's disease.

There are also differences in breeds and in the demands placed on the animals, with early signs of brain impairment more obvious in dogs trained to perform tasks, like assisting people who are blind or hard of hearing.

It has also approved marketing the stents to high-surgical-risk patients with symptoms of blockage — like a previous stroke or other brain impairment — and diagnosed blockages of 50percentt or more.

He added that the gains were particularly striking for patients who had not yet suffered ministrokes or other symptoms of brain impairment but whose arteries were more than 90percentt blocked.

Mr. Sorenson had dyslexia, a brain impairment that can make words and letters look jumbled, rendering reading and writing difficult and often leading to a reversing of words and letters.

The Washington Post says "what causes Cotard's syndrome and other delusions is a matter of debate" and speculates on a range of possibilities including brain impairment.

In a nearly 450-page ruling, Judge Bennett explained that Ms. Johnson's lawyers did not present mitigating evidence about her mental health, including the possibility that she was suffering from borderline personality disorder and serious brain impairments, at the time of the murders.

Second, the values of the medical tests for patients, even after treatment started, remain well-separated from those of healthy people; this is typical for neurodegenerative diseases, but also for further brain impairments.

Acknowledgement of low-severity/high-prevalence disabilities in infants born preterm singles out the need to identify early markers of brain impairments which could predict these late emergent disabilities.

In addition, failure to desist from punished behavior and misperception of others' intentions/behavior appears to be associated with impairments of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortexa (see Table one in Raine 2008 for an overview of 'the translation from brain impairments to risk factors for antisocial behavior').

The initiative directs several federal agencies to make use of new technologies to map the brain's structure and processes used in thinking and memory, with the goal of better preventing, diagnosing and treating brain impairments.