Sentence examples for condition of the brain from inspiring English sources

One kind of research carried on in this field is the study of aphasia, a condition of the brain in which language ability is impaired or destroyed.

The family's struggle began in 2001, when Ms. Marshall's son, Cory Brown, now 12, was found to have Arnold-Chiari, a rare structural condition of the brain in which the cerebellum crowds the part of the spinal cord that connects the skull to the spinal canal.

If one now "identified" demon possession with a certain medical condition of the brain, this would really be an assertion that there is no such thing as a demon-possessed state: the medieval way of looking at the matter is thus rejected.

It should make him wonder what good it would do to posit any further condition whether a purely physical condition of the brain or a condition of some as-yet-unknown nonphysical substance that a human being, an animal, or a machine must possess in order to have a mental life.

We hypothesized that the reactivity of the EEG signal to stimuli could aid in the assessment of the condition of the brain and prediction of the outcome.

One possible explanation for this effect is that the pretreatment changes in tinnitus severity might reflect a particular neurobiological condition of the brain which makes a response to rTMS more or less likely.

Relatively little is known about microcephaly, but based on the skulls and radiographs available for people affected with the condition, the shape of the brain is usually altered from that of normally-developed brains.

James Nicoll, professor of neuropathology at the University of Southampton, said: "This is likely to be an important finding in relation to understanding of infectious and inflammatory conditions of the brain provided the findings are confirmed by others and in humans".

There is also growing interest in new evidence from neuroscience that tentatively suggests that two conditions of the brain compete in decision-making: a cold, objective state and a hot, emotional state in which the ability to make sensible trade-offs disappears.

Although neurons attract the most attention in neurobiology, our current knowledge of neural circuit can only partially explain the neurological and psychiatric conditions of the brain.

Critically, differences between oral contraceptive users and non-users are detectable under resting state conditions of the brain.