Sentence examples for defective brains from inspiring English sources
The authors point all the way back to Galen, the early Greek physician and founder of experimental physiology, who, they wrote, spoke of the "smelly skin, defective brains and weak intelligence" of blacks, a perception that the authors say, may have influenced medical teachings in the Byzantine, Arab and medieval Christian worlds.
In incrosses of atp1a3a tpl10 heterozygotes we did not observe embryos with severely dilated (or otherwise morphologically defective) brain ventricles, but we have not assessed them for more subtle defects (Additional file 7: Figure S5A).
It seems as if, in contemporary life, there's often a temptation to see things like religious visions or supposed saintliness as manifestations of mental illness, or of defective brain chemistry.
For example, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, both products of defective brain cells, could potentially be cured by successful use of stem cells.
It is likely due to defective brain development, they argue.
Together, Corfas says, the experiments show that oligodendrocytes require social interaction to develop properly, and that failure to receive that stimulation results in defective brain function.
Its deficiency leads to enhanced progenitor cell apoptosis and defective brain, eye and cranial nerve development.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06489.015 We first asked whether defective brain vascularization might result from insufficient EC abundance in the parental vessels.
A second group of genes leading to defective brain morphology after LOF showed a straight midbrain (Fig. 2C), where the midbrain hingepoint was essentially absent.
The principle clinical correlate of defective brain glucose sensing in diabetes is the change in the patient's awareness of the plasma glucose concentration.
It was also shown that decreased reelin expression in the adult brain leads to defective brain plasticity, suggesting that reelin deficiency may be implicated in some brain disorders [226].
