Sentences with phrase «between brain and muscle»

Retraining communication between the brain and muscle is easily accomplished and maintained, and can result in better body function, elimination of pain, and improved athletic performance.

When a muscle is stressed, there's an increase in blood flow to the region being exercised, stimulating more responsive nerve connections between the brain and muscle,» says personal trainer and owner of Fully Loaded Fitness, Ethan Hyde.

A molecule that enables strong communication between our brain and muscles appears to also aid essential communication between our neurons, scientists report.

«By blocking this message, the mutant GlyRS enzyme causes the motor neurons to go into decline and even die, which breaks the connection between the brain and the muscles in the limbs.»

Results show that in comparison to women who experienced menopause after the age of 50, those with a premature menopause had a more than 40 % increased risk of poor performance on tasks assessing verbal fluency and visual memory and was associated with a 35 % increased risk of decline in psychomotor speed (coordination between the brain and the muscles that brings about movement) and overall cognitive function over 7 years.

Another type of sleep apnea, central sleep apnea, happens when there's a disconnect between your brain and muscles.

Conductive education training teaches how to find new routes between the brain and the muscles.

Not exact matches

Studies have shown that getting between 7 - 9 hours of sleep per night relieves stress, reduces the risk of chronic diseases and even helps muscles and the brain repair and restore proper function.

Experts aren't sure why young babies hiccup so much; some say it's due to a miscommunication between the brain and the diaphragm, the abdominal muscle that controls breathing.

It takes between 90 and 120 minutes for a child to move through one entire sleep cycle — which brings benefits such as: stabilizing mood, increasing alertness, improving motor skills, enhancing brain connections, sharpening visual and perceptual skills, repairing bones, tissue and muscles, boosting the immune system, regulating appetite and releasing bottled up tension and stress.

Between 18 and 24 months, connections are forming between her brain, the nerves in her spinal cord, and muscles in her bBetween 18 and 24 months, connections are forming between her brain, the nerves in her spinal cord, and muscles in her bbetween her brain, the nerves in her spinal cord, and muscles in her bladder.

This prevents the release of neurotransmitters, cutting off neural communication between muscles and the brain.

An earlier study had identified the connection between the thalamus — a brain region that relays incoming signals from the muscles and senses — and the dmPFC, along with the role this neural circuit can play in modifying a mouse's desire for confrontation.

We also found there should be a short delay between the brain activation and the activation of target muscles.»

They have proliferated around the ant's brain and between surrounding muscle fibers but have not entered the brain, glands or muscles, making the manipulation all the more amazing.

The brain area that controls neck muscles used to be between areas that control the thumb and the top of the head (black arrow) but a new study puts the neck between the shoulder and the trunk (red arrow).

The implant exploits the fact that even when the neural connection between a brain region and the muscles it controls is severed or damaged by, say, a stroke or spinal injury, the controlling neurons remain active.

Between this language formulation and execution is a process called motor speech programming — what the brain does to select, organize, and package the instructions to the muscles of speech, he said.

The group of Jean - Louis Bessereau is investigating the molecular organization of chemical synapses, which are the specialized structures supporting communication between neurons in the brain and between neurons and muscles at neuromuscular junctions.

The idea behind cognitive reserve is that it «strengthens the muscles» of the brain, fostering improved connections between brain neurons and an increased ability to compensate for dysfunction in the brain.

«We want to see what a defect in communication between the mitochondria and AMPK would do to different tissues, particularly ones very dependent on healthy mitochondria, such as brain, muscle and heart,» says Herzig.

He said that his team chose the targeted neuron, called a V2a interneuron, because it serves as a «long relay cable» between the neurons in the brain and the motor neurons that connect directly to muscle.

Interaction between the human host and its's microbiome is mediated via several axes of communication including the immune system, signalling and direct metabolic cross-talk that physiologically connect the gut with the brain, muscle and liver.

The interrelationship between central (the brain) and peripheral (muscles, motor nerves etc.) systems are important in the onset of fatigue.

Choline is a precursor for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is especially important in memory and mood, and it is also the transmitter most often used by neurons that communicate between the brain and the nerves controlling skeletal muscles, heart rate, breathing, sweating and salivation.

The fact is that when it comes to optimizing the performance of your nervous system and cementing the connection between your brain and the rest of your body, it doesn't really matter that much the heavy stuff you lift or how much muscle you build.

The body also needs calcium for muscles to move and for nerves to carry messages between the brain and every body part.

However, an important point of my article is that conscious awareness of abdominal action — being able to feel the muscles contract and retrain them as needed — is vital to improve the function between brain and body, thereby allowing the abdominal muscles to perform their job whether you are aware of them or not.

Muscles need it to move, for example, nerves need it to carry messages between the brain and every body part, and the immune system needs vitamin D to fight off invading bacteria and viruses.

However, the fact that we demonstrated associations between cognition and cardiovascular fitness but not muscle strength, the differential link to some domains over others, and the longitudinal prediction by cardiovascular fitness at age 18 y on subsequent academic achievement speak in favor of a cardiovascular effect on brain function.

Muscle testing facilitates communication between the animal's brain and body and helps evaluate their structural, nutritional, and mental health needs.

The inherited conditions of aortic stenosis (a narrowing above the aortic heart valve or the aortic valve itself), atopy / allergic dermatitis (skin allergies), gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat / stomach dilation), early onset cataracts (a clouding of the lens inside the eye), dilated cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the chambers of the heart and thinning of the muscle wall), elbow dysplasia (abnormal growth of tissues that leads to malformation and degeneration of the joint), epilepsy (brain seizures), hypothyroidism (underactive production of thyroid hormones), intervertebral disk disease (problems with the disks between the vertebrae of the spine leading to neurological problems), and hepatic portosystemic shunt (an abnormal blood circulation where blood is diverted around the liver rather than into it) are more prevalent in purebred dogs than in mixed - breed.

Backwards Brain Bicycle - a great demonstration of the difference between explicit knowledge and implicit muscle memory.