The brain pacemaker is used in some patients to mitigate symptoms of diseases like Parkinson's with pulses that affect certain neurons.
Thus, if the drug calms the mutant mice, the team could soon start clinical trials in people with the syndrome.Although the drug is unlikely to relieve all of the symptoms of the disorder, decreasing anxiety in people with Rett syndrome may mitigate symptoms including learning difficulties, the inclination to withdraw socially and even the tendency to hyperventilate.
The research has also determined drugs that could mitigate symptoms and serve as rescue medications for persons with severe reactions to brevetoxins.
The ability to mitigate symptoms, change behaviors and enhance performance through training combined with a sit-stand workstation has implications for preventing discomforts in office workers.
Third, we must mitigate symptoms of the disease and minimize suffering and death with effective treatments and countermeasures...
Officials with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said staff members had counseled 749 people in the last week of May and the first week of June to "mitigate" symptoms that could lead to destructive behavior.
While stem cell therapy is still under investigation and remains at best an interim treatment for ALS, able to mitigate symptoms for a short period of time, others believe that in future it may prove highly effective as part of a combination treatment in conjunction with gene therapy.
And in the past decade, yoga has been found to significantly mitigate symptoms of PTSD in veterans, anxiety in recovering addicts, depression and general psychological distress.
Drawing on DARPA's insights, could an Alzheimer's "memory prosthesis" be developed to mitigate symptoms once the disease has progressed beyond stages of prevention?
The purpose of many cancer drug treatments is to prolong life and mitigate symptoms.
