Sentences with phrase «brain electrical signals»

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By using methods and tools such as EEG or MRI, neuromarketing read electrical signals from the brain and analyze them to provide their clients with the answers they need.

Love is an emotion, a mix of hormones, chemicals, and electrical signals in the brain and body.

However, I do not believe that it could not possibly survive the death of the body because it is embodied in the unique patterns of electrical and chemical signals in the brain.

Technically, it was an accident; the proximate cause was the breakdown in the electrical signals between his besotted brain and his fumbling fingers.

The inner ear is lined with approximately 30,000 sensitive hair cells that convert sound energy into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

Levels of NAD dropped, and the neural stem cells stopped dividing; they stopped renewing themselves; and they stopped being able to create important cells that insulate axons, the «wires» that carry electrical signals throughout the brain.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

We perceive sound after vibrations in the inner ear are detected by «hair cells» and transmitted to the brain as electrical signals.

Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted, and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped.

The protein is an essential constituent of the visual cycle that converts light to electrical signals to the brain.

Sure enough, when Bullmore's team measured the length of time that two electrical signals from random locations in the brain were «in phase», it was the same at all signal frequencies (PLoS Computational Biology, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pcbi.1000314).

We might think that the brain works in a similar way to a computer: after all, even computers work through electrical signals.

Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a persoElectrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a persoelectrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a person's scalp.

We know that in the human brain there are about one hundred billion neurons that communicate by means of electrical signals.

It acts like a camera to collect and focus light and convert it into an electrical signal that the brain translates into images.

Surviving axons may compensate for the damage by increasing electrical signaling and thus restoring the normal speed of information processing in the brain.

As the animals learned, the researchers recorded electrical signals from individual neurons in the amygdala, a brain structure that forms memories of fearful experiences.

The human body is a complex electrical network: Nerve cells shuttle signals from the brain, and pulses in the heart cause its muscle cells to expand and contract.

Seeking to combine DBS's deep - brain targeting with TMS's noninvasiveness, Boyden's MIT team, led by bioengineer Nir Grossman, took advantage of a well - known property of neurons: They respond only to low - frequency electrical signals.

These thin, tubelike structures transmit electrical and chemical signals that are vital for carrying information among different regions of the brain.

The brain - computer interface extracts information from the brain signals about what movements he intends to make, then passes the information to command the electrical stimulation system.

The hair cells formed normal bundles (see images) that responded to sound waves and signaled the brain, as measured by electrical recordings.

New research involves a lot of different ways to affect the brain: drugs, electrical signals, and, yes, actually shining light on neurons.

As signals are sent from one cell to the next, rhythmic patterns of electrical activity, commonly known as brain waves, are generated.

«The protein travels by diffusion through the cells like electrical signals travel through the brain,» Zeng says.

In this research, authors worked with electrical brain signals that allowed the activation of the presentation of visual stimuli in the iPad's touchscreen.

This device allows the activation of any environmental instrument through specific electrical brain signals selected at will.

Detailed looks at how the brain uses these waves raise the possibility of tweaking the signals with electrical nudges — interventions that could lead to therapies that can correct memory problems and mental illness, for instance.

In the new study, the team focused on neurons called amacrine cells and horizontal cells, which have a known role in «preprocessing» — or adjusting — electrical signals transmitted to the brain from the photoreceptors after they have been stimulated by light photons.

Researchers implanted a silicon chip into Hutchinson's brain, offering a high definition view of her neurons» electrical signals.

These types of activities lead to much smaller electrical signals, and are at the level of typical brain activity.

Recent studies have shown that macaques can also regain a sense of touch by having electrical signals from a prosthesis routed directly to their brains.

On one level, there's the dynamics of electrical currents that constitute the main signaling method of the brain's nerve cells.

Scientists in the US are planning to map the brain activity of the dragonfly as it hunts, using a specially built backpack to transmit electrical signals from the insect's active neurons to a computer.

They chose TMC1 because it is a common cause of genetic deafness, accounting for 4 to 8 percent of cases, and encodes a protein that plays a central role in hearing, helping convert sound into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

Ultimately, these neurons form a circuit between the brain and the target tissue through which chemical and electrical signals are relayed.

Nerve cells in the brain, or neurons, are known to communicate among themselves by transmitting electrical signals, aided by chemical signaling at the synapses connecting the neurons.

TMS uses a magnetic coil placed on the head to increase electrical signaling a few centimeters into the brain.

The electrical signal is perhaps a third of the speed it is in an adult, reflecting the delayed myelination (myelin is the covering of the axon that speeds up transmission of long - distance electrical communication) and immaturity of the young brain.

Once the nanoparticles squeezed through the barrier and the mouse was exposed to a weak magnetic field, the critter's brain responded by firing electrical signals.

The system takes electrical signals from the participant's brain, which then travel down to electrodes placed around his knees to create movement.

In recent years, scientists have worked to create devices called brain - machine interfaces (BMIs) that can pick up these interrupted electrical signals and control the movements of a computer cursor or a real or virtual prosthetic.

Neuroprosthetics can not only be controlled through electrical signals in the brain, but may soon provide sensory information through brain - machine - brain interfaces.

Electrical and computer engineering Professor Barry Van Veen wears an electrode net used to monitor brain activity via EEG signals.

The device uses electrical stimulation to block the pain signals from reaching the brain.

They're what gives the device its ability to decode the complex «language» of the brain, expressed through the electrical signals of large groups of neurons.

The brain controls movement by sending electrical signals to our muscles through nerve cells.

After the associations between smell and place were well established, the researchers could see a pattern of brain wave activity (the electrical signal from a large number of neurons) during retrieval.

In addition, the ability to transmit electrical signals involved in learning and memory — a sign of a healthy brain — was impaired, even in mice that had been joined for just four months.

A neurosurgical procedure in which an implanted neurostimulator delivers electrical signals to specific areas of the brain to help regulate abnormal signals, DBS is currently only approved in the U.S. for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.