The phrase "impaired brain function" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone's cognitive abilities are hindered. For example, "After the accident, the patient exhibited impaired brain function."
There may be several pathogenic mechanisms underlying this process, including accumulation of sorbitol and development of a hyperosmotic state in nerve cells that leads to edema and impaired brain function (16), insulin resistance syndrome (17), impaired insulin homeostasis in the brain (18), and/or hyperinsulinemia (19).
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to impaired brain function by some studies.
Defect of memory is one of the most frequently observed symptoms of impaired brain function.
Dr. Silverman reports that metabolic imaging studies have shown that "people exposed to chemotherapy have impaired brain function in certain regions compared to others who have not been exposed".
Far greater numbers are afflicted by other diseases, including asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, hypertension, strokes, low birth weight, pre-term delivery, pre-eclampsia and (through heavy metal exposure in the womb) impaired brain function.
Although neuronal cell death in acute and chronic neurodegenerative diseases is clearly an important factor in decline of cognitive or motor function, loss of dendritic spines, in the absence of cell death, may also contribute to impaired brain function in these diseases, as well as in psychiatric disorders and aging.
Here, we have applied this technology-driven approach to extend these studies to the pathophysiological mechanisms that facilitate impaired brain functions in X-linked muscular dystrophy.
In order to better understand the mechanisms that underlie impaired brain functions in Duchenne patients, we have carried out a proteomic analysis of total brain extracts from the mdx- 4cv mouse model of dystrophinopathy.
Instead, there is none.This points to the idea that the tangles and plaques may not directly impair brain function after all.
Other tests, like an M.R.I. or CT scan of the brain, can look for evidence of a stroke, brain tumor or leaky blood vessel that may be impairing brain function.
Reducing HDAC6 levels did not impair brain functions in healthy mice but improved cognition in a mouse model for AD.
