Sentences with phrase «brain signals sent»

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Neuroscience tells us that letting your blood sugar sink sends stress signals to your brain.

Protein helps your body to make important enzymes that send signals to your brain to wake up and get moving.

Today, researchers are testing prosthetic limbs that not only respond to thought but actually sense touch and send signals back to the brain.

Whether it's natural or artificial, light is significant because it tells the brain that the day has begun and sends signals to the body to stop making melatonin, the hormone that helps regular sleep, says Winter.

When something enters your nose, it sets off the «sneeze sensor» in your brain, which then sends signals for you to to close your throat, eyes.

That way, you can cross the item off your to - do list, which in turn sends signals to your brain to release a certain amount of dopamine, which can improve your mood.

Having the device within visual range is critical as it sends a signal to the brain to not be anxious.

A genuine smile will send your brain positive signals so you will start seeing things in a positive way.

Our bodies are a precisely arranged set of organs that are run by our incomprehensible brain, sending out the proper hormone or signals at just the right time or when there is a need.

Simply chewing fiber - rich food sends a signal to your brain causing you to begin to feel full, so you're less likely to overeat.

The effectiveness of chiles on sore throat probably involves the depletion of substance P, the neurotransmitter that sends pain signals to the brain.

As we age, our taste buds become less sensitive, so the foods that we once found unappealing, don't send as many strong signals to our brains.

«What's happening is that your receptors in your mouth are sending a signal to your brain that there's pain, and it's in the form of hotness or heat, and so your brain produces endorphins to block that pain,» he explained.

«What's happening is that your receptors in your mouth are sending a signal to your brain that there's pain, and it's in the form of hotness or heat, and so your brain produces endorphins to block that pain,» Bosland told Live Science previously.

That process produces hunger - taming hormones that send signals to your brain and act as natural appetite suppressants.

Dr. Marianne Neifert, a pediatrician and author of «Great Expectations: The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding,» explains that nipple incisions for implants should be avoided if breastfeeding is important to the patient [because] all the milk ducts that drain the different lobes or sections of the breast kind of convene there [and] it's possible to accidentally cut milk ducts or the nerve that sends the signal to your brain to release more hormones that then helps you to produce more milk.»

Research indicates that blue light reprograms the brain, sending a signal to delay the normal release of melatonin in the evening.

The researchers suggest that the daily massage sent a strong signal to the babies» brains to help them get better in tune with their parents» day and night rhythms.

Exhausting muscles to increase strength and muscle size is necessary to stress the body to adapt, but the same concept doesn't apply in balance training, the goal of which is to develop sensory - motor processes so that the brain sends signals down to the muscles to maintain balance and body awareness.

«It's possible to accidently cut milk ducts or the nerve that sends the signal to your brain to release more hormones that then helps you to produce more milk,» said Neifert.

Nerves that lead from the nipple and areola send a signal to the brain to stimulate the release of breast milk and the production of more milk.

When your baby breastfeeds, or you pump your breast milk, the nerves in your breasts send a signal to your brain to release the hormones oxytocin and prolactin.

Your brain will send signals telling that production of melatonin should be enhanced.

Every time you do it, the nerves in your breasts send a signal to your brain to release prolactin, the hormone that's behind milk production.

As you allow your baby to nurse frequently, this sends the proper signals to your brain, which will stimulate milk production.

The nerves attached to his bladder need to send a strong enough signal to his brain to wake him up and tell him he needs to go to the bathroom.

Teething babies need to overwhelm the sensory receptors on their gums to help stop the (Nociceptive) pain signal that is sent to the brain that says «OUCH!».

For your child to wake up to go to the bathroom during the night, his full bladder has to be able to send a strong enough signal to his brain to wake him up.

It works by picking up signals sent from your brain when you think about saying something

Another piece of the puzzle are the signals sent back to the Pulvinar from visual cortex, which seem to make information flow back and forth between the two parts of the brain in a loop.

What we see is not only based on the signals that our eyes send to our brain, but is influenced strongly by the context the visual stimulus is presented in, on our previous knowledge, and expectations.

The thinking goes that most cases of chronic tinnitus result from changes in the signals sent from the ear to neurons in the brain's auditory cortex.

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.

The idea is that a portable device like a mobile phone or a smartwatch reads signals sent from a microchip implanted in the patient's brain, interpreting the data according to the researchers» prize - winning algorithm and warning the patient of an upcoming seizure.

Refined carbs can make you hungrier by interfering with messages the digestive system sends to the brain to signal it's time to put down the doughnut.

After attaching a small helium balloon to a moth to balance out the electronics» weight, Bozkurt and Amit Lal, his Ph.D. adviser at Cornell, discovered they really could fly the bug, as if its own brain were sending signals on how to move.

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.

Modafinil also indirectly alters the action of glutamate, the main neurotransmitter used by neurons in the brain to send signals down the line.

Like the router in a computer network, the brain's version can be reconfigured to send signals to different locations.

To accomplish that, your brain had to send an electric signal down the string of neurons in your spine and to the muscles in your shoulders and elbows, telling them to contract and then let go.

Sight, touch and hearing are our windows to the world: these sensory channels send a constant flow of information to the brain, which acts to sort out and integrate these signals, allowing us to perceive the world and interact with our environment.

After the incoming smell signal pattern is processed, this information is sent to different parts of the brain, including regions involved in memory and emotion, as well as to the cortex, where thinking takes place.

As the brain's sensory relay station, the thalamus is responsible for sending rousing signals to the cortex when we wake up from ordinary sleep.

The neurons send their signals to the brain's olfactory bulb, where each of thousands of little clusters of neurons called glomeruli receives input from olfactory neurons with just one receptor type.

Every time the brain sends the eyes a signal to twitch, it sends a copy, or corollary signal, to another location in the brain, sort of like the way your e-mail client sends copies of your e-mails to their own folder, Wurtz explains.

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

These signals are sent to the back of the brain to an area called V1 where they are transformed to correspond to edges in the visual scenes.

Unattached Gruesomely nicknamed internal decapitation, this kind of injury often kills by severing the spine, impeding signals sent by the brain that tell the lungs to breathe from reaching their destination.

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

Once such mutation prevents the production of an enzyme needed to break down retinol, a form of vitamin A, into a substance that photoreceptors need to detect light and send signals to the brain.