Sentences with phrase «brain signals over»

In the 2013 experiment, the UW team used noninvasive technology to send a person's brain signals over the Internet to control the hand motions of another person.

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That initial swoon over a new baby is more than just love; it's a series of chemicals signaling the brain to care for this helpless infant, and ultimately can help explain the survival of our species.

Even the teeny - tiniest amount of light creeping around through the window can signal to your child's brain that it's morning and sleep time is over.

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«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

It describes how the brain constructs a mental depiction of the surface using sensory signals from two fingers as they explore a surface over time and space.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Using tissue - like mesh electronics, by comparison, researchers may be able to read signals from specific neurons over time, potentially allowing for the development of improved brain - machine interfaces for prosthetics.

Over time, «significant and persistent» MRI abnormalities (called T1 - weighted signal hyperintensities) developed in the brains of rats receiving the linear GBCA, gadodiamide.

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

But over the course of four decades, and through dozens of experiments, Edgerton and his colleagues have shown that the spinal cord is smart in much the same way the brain is smart: It can, on its own, detect sensory information and send out signals that control the way we move.

«The idea is that if you can couple those motor signals that are associated with moving the same - sided limb with the actual movements of the hand, new connections will be made in your brain that allow the uninjured areas of your brain to take over control of the paralyzed hand,» Leuthardt said.

This analysis allowed the team to trace the genetic signals driving brain development at a much finer level, both regionally and over time, than had previously been possible.

The paper, published June 26 in the journal Nature, shows that attention increases the efficiency of signaling into the brain's cerebral cortex and boosts the ratio of signal over noise.

But metal electrodes can quickly damage natural brain tissue, making it impossible to study the transfer of signals over extended periods.

The questions remained of what the signal was, and how, exactly, the signal got all the way to the liver from the brain, particularly since the blood - brain barrier prevents many molecules in the brain from crossing over into the rest of the body, just as it prevents molecules from getting into the brain.

When the researchers looked at brain size, they found that for fighters who had increasing levels of tau over time, there was a 7 percent decline in the volume of their thalamus, which is located in the center of the brain and regulates sleep, consciousness, alertness, cognitive function and language while also sending sensory and movement signals to other portions of the brain.

Thin - film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to sort brain activity by individual neurons, a technology that could open the door to recording and analyzing unprecedented amounts of neural signals over time...

Itâ $ ™ s an example of the kinds of insights that can be obtained from implantable electrical stimulation devices, which can record signals from seizures inside the brain over long periods of time (more than a year).

Dec. 12, 2017 - Thin - film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to sort brain activity by individual neurons, a technology that could open the door to recording and analyzing unprecedented amounts of neural signals over time...

Over time, the resulting bouts of inflammation permanently damage the myelin sheath and the nerve fibers it protects, disrupting nerve signals traveling to and from the brain.

In other words, the release of leptin from the fat tissue signals the brain that you've eaten enough — the more of it you have, the faster your metabolism and the greater your control over food cravings will become, leading to an increased burning of fat.

«The lesions slow down neural signals, and over time, neural messages can't get where they need to go, resulting in impaired brain function.

In short, this means that repeated access to sugar over time leads to prolonged dopamine signalling, greater excitation of the brain's reward pathways and a need for even more sugar to activate all of the midbrain dopamine receptors like before.

Over time, too little thyroid hormones can damage the nerves from the brain and spinal cord that send signals throughout the body.

Like fiber, it can slow the pace of digestion, enabling your gut to send satiety signals to your brain over a longer period of time.

Depression — whether due to decreased HGH signals to the brain or upset over changes to the body, mood swings, and depressed feelings are common with both conditions

You've done the same thing over and over so many times (in this case constantly clicking on that certain location for the FB app) that every time you think about the act of going on FB, your brain automatically signals your finger to that exact location.

«If you are tempted, give your body an «automatic» brain signal that eating is over for the night.

Over 20 years ago, neuroimaging demonstrated that both sides of the brain are in constant communication, transmitting neural signals from one hemisphere to the other.

When a learner goes over multiplication facts or rereads confusing parts of a book, the brain gets better at processing this information because, with such repetition, more neurons grow and connect to other neurons, and neurons get more efficient at sending one another signals.

The proteins destroy nerves over time, which will lead to an accumulation of plaque in the brain that will hinder the transmission of the brain's electrical signals.