Sentences with phrase «brain along the nerve»

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.

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Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

As Jesus slowly sags down with the weight of His body on the nails through His wrists, excruciating, fiery pain shoots along the most sensitive nerve endings in the body — called the median nerves — and travels along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain.

The standard explanation recounts the existence of a material object, its reflection of light waves of a certain length, the transference of these light waves from the object to the perceptual organs of the observer (in this case, the eyes), the interaction of the light waves with the rods and cones of the retina, the transference of nerve impulses along the relevant nerves to the brain, and, finally, the production of the sensation of sight.

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).

Research shows that the growth of our babies brains (DNA synthesis) happen rapidly during the first few years of life, along with nerve growth factors which is a hormone that facilitates development And how are both of these promoted?

To explain a bit further, what really happens is that when your baby's body tries to process and expel the excess water, it also releases the sodium vital to brain and nerves activity along with the water.

The growth in our babies brains happens incredibly quickly during the first few years of life, along with nerve growth factors including a hormone that facilitates development.

Maybe the microbes send signals along the vagus nerve, a kind of information highway that runs from gut to brain.

Touch receptors in your skin sense the insect and activate an electrical current that passes along nerves until it reaches your brain, which registers the fly's presence and instigates a response.

These electrodes pulse to stimulate cells in the retina, transmitting visual information along the optic nerve to the brain, creating the perception of patterns of light.

These signals then travel along the auditory nerve to 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).

SLU researcher Tom Malone compares the way water moves along nerve fibers through the brain to a garden hose.

DTI «sees» the movement of water molecules within and along axons, the nerve fibers that constitute the brain's white matter.

Several specimens of the species, Fuxianhuia protensa (left), contain dark areas within their eye stalks (see fossil, above right; gray areas in sketch, bottom right) that represent preserved clusters of neural tissue, including clumps along the optic nerve (labeled 1 through 3 in the sketch) and the brain (lowermost mass).

When these photoreceptors detect light, they send a signal to specialized neurons in the retina called retinal ganglion cells, or RGCs, which then transmit visual information to the brain by firing electrical pulses along the optic nerve.

When one wafts into our nostrils, these receptors send nerve signals to sensory way stations called glomeruli, which pass them along to the brain for interpretation — «Oh, a rose!»

The cochlea has the all - important job of transforming mechanical energy in the form of sound waves into electrical signals that run along auditory nerves to the brain.

Water tends to diffuse more quickly along nerve fibres than through other tissues, though researchers are not clear exactly what determines the speed of diffusion in different parts of the brain.

The cochlea transmits sound information through these nerves to the spiral ganglion, which then passes along those messages to the brain.

Magnesium, along with calcium, potassium, chloride, and sodium are all electrolytes, needed for our brain, nerves, heart, eyes, immune system, and muscles to function.

Childbirth pain is carried by the exact same nerves, along the same pathways in the spinal cord, to the same pain centers in the brain, by way of the same neurotransmitters as every other source of pain.

It's believed that capsaicin short - circuits pain by depleting nerve cells of a chemical called substance P (which helps transmit pain signals along nerve endings to the brain).

This electrical potential is produced in consequence of electrical signals sent from the brain, along efferent nerves that control motor units (Baylor & Hollingworth, 2011; Smith et al. 2013).

There is also a sing along track as well for the following songs «Over the Rainbow,» «Munchkinland Medley,» «Follow the Yellow Brick Road / You're Off to See the Wizard,» «If I Only Had a Brain,» «If I Only Had a Heart,» «We're Off to See the Wizard,» «If I Only Had the Nerve / We're Off to See the Wizard,» «Optimistic Voices,» «The Merry Old Land of Oz,» and «If I Were King of the Forest.»

A lavishly costumed, location - enhanced thriller, Red Sparrow carries itself along briskly enough (even with a 139 - minute running time, the most indulgent thing about it), but it's never especially brain - twisting or nerve - wracking.

She, along with the rest of the neurology team, our commitment to providing comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for patients with brain, spinal cord, or peripheral nerve disorders.

A pet with a problem in its spinal cord will have the reflex, but will not realize it is painful because the nerves that travel along the spinal cord to the brain are injured.

If you are painfully pinched on your skin it is the nerve branches in your skin that relay a feeling of pain from the skin, to a local nerve branch, and eventually along your spinal cord to your brain.

This stimulation sends signals along nerves and into the brain.