Sentences with phrase «by tremor»

Parkinson's disease is characterized by tremor, muscle stiffness, and problems with movement.

«If combined with slowness of movement and stiffness in the limb affected by the tremor, it could be consistent with Parkinson's disease,» he says.

Last week, findings presented at the huge annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience further buttressed the theory that spread of the rogue protein, called α - synuclein, is responsible for the progressive disease, which is marked by tremor, stiff movements, depression, and, ultimately, dementia.

«People get really frustrated by tremor, and experience embarrassment that often leads to social isolation because they're always feeling conscious not just eating but even drinking from a cup or glass.»

Between two and three in the afternoon of April 11, a European observer in the village of Surakarta (Solo) noticed «a tremulous motion of the earth, distinctly indicated by the tremor of large window frames; another comparatively violent explosion occurred late in the afternoon.

Preceded by a tremor, a wave of «shared impulse» extending to the very depths of the social and ethnic masses in their need and claim to participate, without distinction of class or color, in the onward march of human affairs, the final act is already visibly preparing.

Instead, we faced a blank final page — leaving the Yooks and Zooks face to face, about to destroy each other either by intent or by the tremor of an aging hand.

Characterized by tremors, rigidity, difficulty walking and other symptoms, Parkinson disease is caused by the destruction of brain cells that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine.

She has found that those who have a sub-group not dominated by tremors often fall at an early stage of the disease.

Strange look would come over him, accompanied by tremors and vomiting.

Your dog is not affected by the tremors, but may become alarmed or stressed by your reaction.

PVMBG head Kasbani said that an eruption would be indicated by tremors and smoke coming out of the crater, as well as an increase in volcanic seismic activity.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's promise to rebuild Amatrice and other mountain towns ravaged by last week's tremors echoed pledges made by former premier Silvio Berlusconi to some 80,000 people who lost their homes in and around L'Aquila in 2009.

Like William James, who was uncharmed by the virtues of the «block - universe,» I have difficulty grasping why the slightest trace of contingency, the faintest tremor of ambiguity about the future, would upset science and ruin everything.

The only disquieting tremor had been some other news out of Philadelphia, relayed to him by telephone from friends back home, that Daily News sports editor Larry Merchant had written a column confirming Liston's worst fears about how his triumph might be received.

Inspired by the current tremors rippling through the party, it will explore wider questions about what is a political party is for, who is welcome and how it should function.

«When the prime minister was questioned the first time there was sort of a real earth tremor that went through politics because this was the first time a serving prime minister was questioned by police.

Earthquakes do tend to cluster, though, meaning any tremors raise the likelihood of imminent seismic events by a factor of a hundred or even a thousand.

New Madrid is just one of several regions that have been struck by major tremors despite a seemingly safe location at the center of a plate.

The news, broken by The Washington Post, sent tremors through the public health and policy communities.

«But low - and medium - intensity tremors occur with a certain frequency in Brazil, and these can have drastic consequences depending on where they happen,» said the principal investigator for the research project «Pantanal - Chaco - Paraná basins (PCPB): crust and upper mantle seismic structure and evolution,» supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

The magnitude - 6.2 quake was not preceded by even one warning tremor, says Warner Marzocchi, head of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome.

A recent example was the series of tremors of magnitudes 2.01 - 2.55 that occurred in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, three days before the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam owned by Samarco, resulting in the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history.

Essential tremor is a neurological disorder characterized by shaking of hands (and sometimes other parts of the body including the head), evoked by intentional movements.

MASSIVE earthquakes, such as the one that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, could be predicted years in advance by monitoring tremors caused by «Earth tides».

By July of 1849, his handwriting was beginning to deteriorate, perhaps because of tremors.

The vast majority of events detected by the system are natural — earthquakes and seismic tremors of various sorts.

The energy released by those implosions causes the tremors leading up to an eruption.

An initial test to determine if a scalpel - free form of brain surgery can reduce tremor caused by Parkinson's disease has produced encouraging results.

In short, by driving dopamine, nicotine appeared to ease the tremors and tics caused by Parkinson's, and even the movement disorder induced by the major Parkinson's drug.

Focused ultrasound already has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of essential tremor, the most common movement disorder.

Because the tremors are caused by wind - driven waves, microseisms cease when a lake freezes over in winter.

The tremors and other movement impairments of Parkinson's are triggered by the death of dopamine - producing cells in the brain, so the investigators used flies that had been genetically engineered to have their dopamine cells die off as they age.

The research group discovered migrating (moving) shallow low - frequency tremors which are thought to be triggered by slow episodic slipping (slow slip event) at the shallow plate boundary.

By showing the value of recording those motions, ROMY could pave the way for miniature sensors that could help oil and gas prospectors and even planetary scientists who want to listen for tremors on the moon and Mars.

Distribution of shallow low - frequency tremors detected by the ocean bottom seismometer network.

The islands of the Japanese archipelago are affected both by frequent, low - magnitude earthquakes and tremors and by larger, highly destructive events.

The shallow tremors had similar migration properties to deep low - frequency tremors that occur at the deep subducting plate interface, and that they also occurred synchronized in time and space with shallow very - low - frequency tremors that also thought to be triggered by slow slip events.

The tremors described in this particular study are called short duration events, and are definitely not caused by the same mechanisms as proper earthquakes.

Minute tremors in space itself, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, are generated when massive objects accelerate.

After treatment, tremors may subside by as much as 80 percent.

So far, scientists believe that larger earthquakes are unlikely to occur following tremors or earthquakes below a Richter scale of 2 that are caused by small vibrations or slow fault movements such as those observed in the area of Parkfield along the San Andreas Fault in California, USA.

This device, developed by Lift Labs, contains microelectronics in the base that allow it to cancel out the effects of hand tremors suffered by essential tremor patients.

Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, typically is accompanied by symptoms such as tremors, sweating and heart palpitations that prompt people to eat or drink to raise their blood sugar levels.

«Compared with other devices designed to limit tremor by weighting or constraining limbs, this approach allows movement and is easier to use.»

Ever since, researchers have been struggling to understand whether the tremors were triggered by the Landers quake, and if so, how.

Though the trial did not include patients with hand tremors caused by other movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, the device may be useful to such patients too, he notes.

Using tiny ground tremors generated by the rumble of cars and trucks across highways, the activities within offices and homes, pedestrians crossing the street and even airplanes flying overhead, a team led by Nakata created detailed three - dimensional subsurface maps of the California port city of Long Beach.

As for the idea that the smaller tremors reduce the risk by releasing energy, Bertolaso insisted that he had heard it from scientists at the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), and that he had used the same phrase in the past without being corrected by any of his seismology consultants.

Marked by characteristic tremor, rigidity and slowness of movement, Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive degeneration of parts of the nervous system.