Sentences with phrase «brain signals travel»

Brain signals travel directly to the gut (Source: Chris Kresser).

The colors in this image trace this kaleidoscopic crisscrossing and show the directions, in three dimensions, in which brain signals travel.

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

Nerve signals from the eyes travel through optic nerves and split off to both sides of the brain.

Serotonin and norepinephrine can stifle pain signals traveling from the brain to the rest of the body.

The sensory signals travel through a mass transit system made up of long branches of neurons that crisscross the brain.

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

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.

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

These signals then travel along the auditory nerve to the brain.

The part of the brain that tells us the direction to travel when we navigate has been identified by UCL scientists, and the strength of its signal predicts how well people can navigate.

The latest research reveals that the part of the brain that signals which direction you are facing, called the entorhinal region, is also used to signal the direction in which you need to travel to reach your destination.

DSI can also tease apart the confusing jumble of connections that appear at neural crossroads; such images are crucial for unraveling how signals travel through the brain.

The impulses cause glutamate (one of the brain's main neurotransmitters) to pop out of one nerve cell and travel across the synapse to activate the next by binding to its receptors, chemically active signaling stations on the cell surface.

New research presented by Dr. Jonathan Britt, from McGill University, helps to better understand how reward signals, such as those produced by addictive drugs, travel through the brain and modify brain circuits.

The retina sits at the back of the human eye, and contains protein cells that convert light into electrical signals that travel through the nervous system, triggering a response from the brain, ultimately building a picture of the scene being viewed.

These electrical pulses travel along specialized extensions called axons to cause the release of chemical signals elsewhere in the brain.

Although traveling bursts of voltage can carry signals across the brain quickly, those electrical spikes may not be the only — or even the main — way that information is carried in nervous systems.

Impulses from the retinas, for instance, have to travel up the optic nerve to the thalamus, which relays the signals to the visual cortex in the back of the brain.

I couldn't tell whether my muscles were suddenly too weak to raise my feet, or whether the signal to move was getting lost as it traveled from my brain to my legs.

The model also activates markers for cells that have the classic excitatory and inhibitory functions in the brain, and that enable chemical signals to travel throughout the structure.

Millions of electrical signals travel throughout the brain, carrying information from cell to cell and region to region.

Long - lasting changes in brain connectivity require new gene expression, and Dr. Martin has discovered a role for specific signaling molecules that travel from stimulated synapses to the nucleus to change the transcription of DNA to RNA.

The brain may further modulate the pain signal by activating the «descending pain control system,» made up of bundles of nerve fibers that travel from brain to spinal cord to decrease the pain signal.

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.

It travels its way to the hypothalamus and allows the brain to receive signals about the state of energy stores and satiety.

They produce more of the hormone leptin which travels to the brain and signals that «we're too fat».

It is produced in your gut, then travels to your brain and sends a signal to feel hungry.

When signals from the brain to the gut are inadequate, the ileocecal valve which separates the large intestine from the small intestine, may weaken and allow contents from the large intestine to travel backward into the small intestine, where they colonize.

Before you curl a dumbbell an electrical signal starts in your brain and travels down your spinal cord to the lower cervical region where it activates a different nerve that goes out to your biceps.

It means that the signals from the brain will travel at a faster rate to the muscle which will help it to lift weights.

Some of these are excitatory and continue to send the signal up the spinal cord to the brain, while others are inhibitory and inhibit the signal from traveling further.

When the signal gets to the spinal cord segment it also travels to the brain signaling that the foot is in an abnormal position.