He said previous trials to use drugs to protect the brain had resulted in failure.
Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare events like liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.
Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by failure of part of the brain to develop either before birth, at birth or in early childhood.
Degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's may turn out to be more difficult to model because they involve the failure of more than just brain cells, Markram says.
It results from the failure of a part of the brain to develop before birth or in early childhood or brain damage and affects one in 400 births.
Hospital chief executive Kelvin Loh said she had suffered severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain.
Neurologically, scientists are still working to understand boredom's effects on the brain, but they theorize that the state involves a failure in the neural networks that control attention.
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This parallel failure of visual and auditory systems is seen elsewhere in the brain.
If left untreated, kidney damage can worsen and turn into kidney failure, which can have serious affects on the heart, brain, and bones.
He died of heart failure in 2010 at just 45, and when they examined his brain they found he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), caused by taking blows to the head.
There is also a crippling loss of nerve cells in brain areas involved in cognitive functions which leads to the main behavioural symptom, failure of the memory.
Noor has a shunt in her brain to relieve pressure from fluid buildup, and she often experiences urinary tract infections that could possibly lead to renal failure.
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