Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher life satisfaction and less depression. In addition, they attend religious services more frequently and belong to more social organizations.

Canadian Businessman

S. Jay Olshansky

The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

American Scientist

Stella Young

The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best.

Australian Comedian

Antonio Damasio

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

Portuguese Scientist

Davey Havok

With anything you do and you dedicate yourself to and you dedicate thousands and thousands of hours, eventually you're gonna get a little bit better at it unless there's some innate impairment preventing that.

American Musician

RJ Mitte

I would love to switch on my TV and see a disabled person talking about something they are genuinely interested in or acting out a part that doesn't just focus on their impairment.

American Actor

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

American Judge

Kajal Aggarwal

Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.

Indian Actress

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

Indian Politician

Matthew Walker

Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended.

English Scientist

Impairment suggests varying degrees of limitation or reduced function.

Condition Severity

Impairment implies a negative change from a previous level of ability.

Negative Connotation

Relate impairment to specific abilities when discussing someone's condition.

Context Sensitive

In economics, impairment reflects financial deterioration, important in business contexts.

Financial Relevance

Different from physical damage, it's about value reduction of assets.

Not Physical Damage

Most common in accounting and finance sectors, be mindful of the audience.

Sector Specific

Often refers to loss of normal functioning in a bodily system.

Medical Condition

Used formally in medical or therapeutic contexts to describe conditions.

Clinical Tone

Impairment can range from mild to severe interference with daily life.

Range of Effects

 you've had we've had more than more than three beers you're not being honest with when you say three beers I'm not wasted though we're just okay well what I observed you're definitely unable to operate them snowmobile right now okay okay basically what he exhibited is six out of six clues of impairment which would suggest a blood

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 At higher doses, the visual world can appear to melt, dissolve into swirls, or burst into fractal-like patterns. Evidence suggests these drugs also act on the cerebral cortex. But while visual impairment typically only causes visual hallucinations, and hearing loss auditory ones,

How much of what you see...

 that have early language impairments, and that are going to struggle to learn to read, is that their language processor is created in a defective form. And the reason that it rises in a defective form is because early in the baby's brain's life the machine process is noisy.

Michael Merzenich:...

 Ceara. All she ever wanted to do was be a dancer. She was told that because of her visual impairment, she'll never dance. She'll never be able to follow the choreography or the dance steps. She's like, they said, find another love, another passion. She's like, no.

Rick Guidotti: From...

 And it's kind of disturbing, how little of any given day we remember. So it's a very selective process, and that's something that I think is going to be useful not only for basic neuroscience, but, for instance, in helping people with memory loss and impairments,

Anil Seth: How your...

 Like, how should robots cross the road? Or how should robots interact with people with visual or mobility impairments? We quickly realized that we need to teach our robots how to communicate with people. People on the sidewalk come from every walk of life,

A friendly, autonomous...

 and reduces life expectancy -- obesity, check. You can define disease as a process that leaves you more susceptible to other diseases or causes disease. Obesity, check. Or you can define disease as a genetic impairment

Mads Tang-Christensen:...

 And specifically, I'd like to talk with you about how bionics is evolving for people with arm amputations. This is our motivation. Arm amputation causes a huge disability. I mean, the functional impairment is clear.

Todd Kuiken: A...

 that women who have close female friendships are less likely to develop impairments -- physical impairments as they age, and they are likely to be seen to be living much more vital, exciting -- And longer --

A hilarious celebration...

 physical impairments most of these kids could not walk requiring the use of a wheelchair for mobility they didn't have functional mobility so they required assist for all of their daily care needs their

Impairment

The state of being damaged or weakened in some way.

Often appears as...

A reduction in the value of an asset over time, due in particular to wear and tear.

Often appears as...

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A break in the normal function of a tissue or organ.

Often appears as...

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Condition Severity

Negative Connotation

Context Sensitive

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