What is "impairments"

Usage examples of "impairments".

But I mentioned that the important symbolic content of dreams showed significant neocortical involvement, although the frequently reported impairments in reading, writing, arithmetic and verbal recall suffered in dreams were striking.

Understanding the nature of these impairments might suggest, if not curative treatments - because for most none is known - then at least potential approaches to rehabilitation.

For example, lesions in the right hemisphere of the cerebral cortex may lead to impairments in thought and action, but in the nonverbal realm, which is, by definition, difficult for the patient or the physician to describe.

In other cases, more bizarre perceptions follow, including geometrically regular, cursive floating impairments in the visual field, and "visual fits" in which (for example) objects on the floor to the patient's lower right are momentarily perceived as floating in the air to his upper left and rotated 180 degrees through space.

It may even be possible to map which parts of the occipital lobes are responsible for which visual functions by systematically calculating the impairments of vision from various occipital lesions.

Permanent impairments of vision are much less likely to occur in the very young, whose brains seem able to repair themselves or transfer functions to neighboring regions very well.

Thus elderly people-and ones not so elderly-may have serious impairments in accessing short-term memory while being otherwise perfectly alert and intellectually keen.

If given a choice between her infirmities—the game leg, the twisted and incomplete hand—and whatever damage had been done to some deep region of his brain, he would have opted for her physical impairments without hesitation.

She started to study his self-inflicted impairments properly, trying to work out what the hell she could realistically achieve.

The reason was that many motorcycle accidents involved head injuries that led to permanent impairments or death.

Except in virgin regiments, where kitchen and clerical duties rotate among the ranks, base personnel are men with physical impairments, apparently resulting from combat or training injuries.

What is needed here is a beautiful new chapel, with all these surrounding impairments swept away.