What is "deficits"

Usage examples of "deficits".

It was not until the work of Paul Broca in France, David Ferrier in England and other later nineteenth-century pioneers that it became clear that at least some aspects of brain function could be localized, in the sense that damage to them results in more or less specific functional deficits, from motor paralysis to loss of speech.

Experiments showing that the effects of protein synthesis inhibitors on memory could be mimicked by injecting large quantities of some of their constituent amino acids were made by one of my earliest graduate students, John Hambley, on his return to Australia: Hambley, J, and Rogers, L J Some neurochemical correlates of permanent learning deficits associated with intracerebral injections of amino acids in young chick brain.

Most private businesses, faced with such chronic deficits, would either reorganize or go bankrupt.

For instance, by asking patients first to repeat back immediately a short sequence of digits, then to remember a list of items presented a few minutes previously, and finally to describe some past experience, such as what they did last summer, it is possible to identify different classes of deficits in memory mechanisms, often associated with ageing- and in particular with specific diseases of ageing.

However, there are many types of damage to specific brain regions in which much more specific memory deficits occur.