Sentences with phrase «between brain nerve»

It even encourages proper communication between brain nerve cells and calms stress and anxiety impulses though that pathway.

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Confusingly, there is some crossing of nerves between the body and the brain, which means it's actually the left side of the brain that has more control over the right side of the body and vice versa.

Long story short — there are voltage levels that exist in the human body, between cardiac rhythms, nerve conduction and brain waves.

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

Indeed, he admits that some points along the causal route of inheritance are vividly felt (e.g., the hand when holding the stone), while others fade to the fringes of consciousness (e.g., the nerves between the hand and the brain).

The consumed caffeine caused dopamine, a carrier of messages between nerve cells in the brain, to flood the brain's pleasure center resulting in decreased pain sensitivity, a huge benefit for chronic pain suffers.

- Speeds myelination * between the nerve cells in the stomach and the brain.

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.

Analysis of their brains revealed inflammation and decreased numbers of dendrites, which transmit signals between nerves.

Their brains differed in the activity of over a hundred genes that provide cells with energy, influence chemical communications in the brain and strengthen the connection between nerve cells.

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

Further study revealed that these so - called immune proteins are actually present on the surface of certain nerve cells, but that they functioned differently in the brain than they did in the rest of the body; rather than scouting for germs, they influenced signals sent between neurons.

This type of inflammation between 18 and 32 weeks of gestation in humans has been linked to preterm birth as well as an imbalance of immune cells in the brain of the offspring and even death of nerve cells in the brains of those children.

The traditional view is that learning is based on the strengthening or weakening of the contacts between the nerve cells in the brain.

The scientists observed that transmission of chemical signals between the nerve cells are facilitated by AMPA - receptors and the activity occurs on the brain cell surface.

Using fluorescent antibodies designed specifically to light up the receptor in mice, the investigators observed it on vagus nerves, which serve as a main biochemical connection between airway cells and the brain.

They collect outside the nerve cells in the brain and disrupt the signaling system between neurons, blocking them from relaying messages.

As a whole, the findings suggest the proteins act on the gut — brain axis — the collection of two - way nerve and chemical pathways that communicate between the digestive tract and the brain — and that GDF15 might be a clinical target for metabolic disorders.

A new device to treat obesity blocks nerve signals between the brain and stomach to suppress appetite — but its effects are small

By examining the brains of bees trained to different tasks, the researchers found that the number of connections between nerve cells may hold the answer to questions about individual cognitive differences.

When someone suffers a head trauma, sometimes there is damage to the optic nerve that is responsible for passing information between the eyes and the brain.

One focus is peripheral nerve disorder, in which messages between the brain and the rest of the body are interrupted.

MS is an incurable disease in which the insulation around the nerves becomes damaged, disrupting the communication between body and brain.

If only your left pupil had constricted, your doctor would know that the left retina, optic nerve, and brain stem were intact but that there was a problem somewhere between your midbrain and brain stem and right eye.

Certain changes in synapses — the junctions between nerve cells in the brain — have been linked with brain disorders.

At the same time, the researchers monitored nerve firing in a part of the cortex — the ventral intraparietal area — that serves as an interface between the brain's visual and motor processing regions.

When a nerve snaps, communication between different brain regions is disrupted, just like a damaged circuit in a computer.

Based on previous studies, researchers have hypothesized that recreational noise exposure might damage the circuitry between sensory hair cells in the inner ear and their auditory nerve targets that deliver information to the brain.

In trying to understand the brain, for instance, neuroscientists have focused on synapses — the junctions between nerve - cell endings — as the essential transmitters of thought and feeling.

Between birth and a child's first birthday, her brain nearly triples in size as torrents of newborn nerve cells create neural pathways.

Variants of a protein that helps snip connections between nerve cells in the brain may contribute to the disorder, scientists report January 27 in Nature.

A healthy optic nerve has axons transmitting information from the eye to the brain along the nerve after considerable information processing and synaptic transmission between various cell types within the retina.

Caveat: To date, this strategy has only been able to allow better communication between nerve cells in the spinal cord, but there is no evidence of improved communication between those neurons and the brain.

Previous research has showed that musicians have increased white matter integrity in a specific part of the brain called the corpus callosum, a thick band of nerve fibres that connects the left and right halves of the brain, enabling communication between the hemispheres.

An arm's or a leg's motor skills fail because, though the nerve cells in the limb are fine, there's no longer a connection between them and the brain.

Signals between the gut and the brain may zip along the vagus nerve, a multilane highway that connects the two (SN: 11/28/15, p. 18).

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While most researchers use Brainbow to visualize connections between nerve cells in the brain, Alain Chédotal of the Institut de la Vision in

The team, led by Stephen Liberles, Harvard Medical School associate professor of cell biology, has effectively deconstructed the vagus nerve, a key connection between body and brain that is important because it controls not only breathing but also heart rate, feeding behavior and responses to illness.

«Moreover, there is an active bidirectional communication between the nerve cells and the blood vessels to ensure the proper development and maintenance of an organ as complex as the brain,» reports Carmen Ruiz de Almodóvar.

The injuries crush and sever the long axons of spinal cord nerve cells, blocking communication between the brain and the body and resulting in paralysis below the injury.

Two types of nerves transmit signals between the body and the brain: efferent nerves, which relay signals from the brain to the body, and afferent nerves, which send signals from the body to the brain.

The results of the current study provide a partial answer to this mystery: it is precisely because of their small brain that is densely packed with nerve cells that birds are able to reduce the processing time in tasks that require rapid interaction between different groups of neurons.

White matter consists of large bundles of nerve cells that connect different regions of the brain and enable communication between them.

New research shows that humans distinguish the difference between fine textures, such as silk or satin, through vibrations, which are picked up by two separate sets of nerve receptors in the skin and relayed to the brain.

Although it is known that the electric stimulation blocks nerve activity between the brain and the stomach, the specific mechanisms for weight loss due to use of the device are unknown.

New research provides an intriguing glimpse into the processes that establish connections between nerve cells in the brain.

The drug restored in the mice normal levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter communicating messages between nerve cells in the brain.

«They play an important role in the excitation of nerve cell axons and signal transfer between various cells,» says Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck, who conducts research in experimental epileptology at the Department of Epileptology, at the Life & Brain center and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

It may, for example, partly account for the differences in brain structure and behavior between identical twins, and could even affect thought processes by subtly influencing the changes in nerve cell connections that occur with experience.