Sentences with phrase «controls involuntary»

I believe this stems from the limbic portion of the brain, which controls involuntary responses among other things.

This nerve is a very important part of the autonomic nervous system, the part that controls involuntary action such as breathing.

The autonomic nervous system controls involuntary activities in the body, such as the beating of the heart and circulation of blood.

For many people though, this might be uncomfortable, and you can't control your involuntary sleep movement leading you to a side or stomach position.

The patient will need to be supported with medications to control the involuntary muscle contractions until the ibuprofen is out of the patient's system.

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According to this point of view, the problem drinker's behavior is quite involuntary; it is caused by conditions over which she or he has no control.

Discovering that you can control the «involuntary» response of the sympathetic nervous system (which regulates skin temperature) by intentionally relaxing, can enhance the awareness, «I'm in charge of me, including my body!»

Volitional control can be established, through biofeedback learning, over processes long believed to be totally subject to the involuntary control of the autonomic nervous system.

We do not have control over hiccups, as they are partially controlled by the autonomic nervous system, which also controls things like our heartbeat, pupil dilation, and other involuntary bodily functions.

But these spells aren't intentional — they're an involuntary reflex, which means kids have no control over them.

Nocturnal enuresis is the involuntary urination while sleeping by a person who would normally be able to control urination at their age.

Moreover, at birth the infant's breathing i.e. respiratory system is also not yet fully developed, as regards complete control of both voluntary and involuntary breathing and the relationship between the two systems especially during sleep (see McKenna et al 2007 for explanation and McKenna 1986); nor is the infant's thermo - regulatory system developed as the infant is unable to shiver, for example, to keep its own body warm.

Bed - wetting is involuntary, and he can't control it.

This not only keeps your little love bundled and warm, it helps reduce involuntary reflexes your baby can not yet control that may wake him.

Since labor is involuntary and unpredictable, i.e. out of control, it is difficult for doctors to serve as control towers.

The updated guideline covers four neurologic disorders: spasticity in adults, which is muscle tightness that interferes with movement typically following a stroke, spinal cord or other neurologic injury; cervical dystonia, a disorder of the brain affecting neck muscle control that causes involuntary head tilt or neck movement; blepharospasm, a movement disorder that causes the eyes to close uncontrollably; and chronic and episodic migraine.

In his famous piece, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, Parkinson described a number of patients with key symptoms of the neurological condition, such as involuntary tremors and diminished muscle control, and several decades later the disease was named after him.

Effortful disengagement responses are controlled responses that are directed away from a problem and include avoiding the stressful situation or denying that there's a problem; involuntary responses can include uncontrollable engagement with a problem (e.g., ruminating) or uncontrollable disengagement from a problem (e.g., feeling numb and unable to think about it).

McKenna points out that infants are susceptible both to colic and SIDS during the same narrow developmental window, between about six to 14 weeks — the time period during which the respiratory system is learning how to shift between voluntary and involuntary control of breathing that involves both the «thinking» part of the brain (the cortex) and the brain stem.

The brain controls «lower» or involuntary activities such as heartbeat, respiration, and digestion - these are known as autonomic functions.

Though you might think those involuntary movements, also called tics, might be a hindrance to athletic pursuits, two separate studies show people with Tourette's actually have great timing and self - control — qualities essential for stopping goals.

Incontinence is «the involuntary loss of bowel or bladder control.»

Both postural and phasic muscles are skeletal muscle, which is categorized as voluntary muscle: voluntary, as opposed to the smooth muscle your organs are made of, which is involuntary — meaning your organs continue to do their job without your conscious control or consent (even, for example, when you're not thinking about what your small intestine is doing).

The heart is an involuntary muscle that is crucial to human life but can not be consciously controlled.

The Automatic side is the involuntary side that controls the hundreds of processes in the body you probably take for granted every day, like breathing, sweating, your heart beat, and the movements of your digestive tract.

This is important because re-feeding syndrome is mostly found in the condition of starvation (uncontrolled, involuntary restriction of food) or wasting (starvation to the point of severe malnutrition) rather than fasting (controlled, voluntary restriction of food).

Remember that the digestive system is under the control of the involuntary (called «autonomic») nervous system.

While breathing is an involuntary bodily function — which happens all the time, non-stop (until we die)-- we have the ability to control it at will.

With any loss of higher brain control, the lower, reactive brain's involuntary outputs are in charge.

When students have experiences that build their executive functions of emotional self - regulation, attentional focus and distraction inhibition, they have tools to resist the brain's involuntary switch to the reactive emotional control systems.

This compulsive behaviour is often repeated and is involuntary, meaning that it is not within their control.

The nerve damage results in loss of voluntary and involuntary motor control.

After surgery, there is also a chance that your dog may lose control over its bladder and bowel, and have involuntary «accidents.»

Young puppies and older dogs also commonly have the problem due to involuntary colon activity and poor control over the anal musculature.

He's not able to control his urine like he used to, so this behavior is involuntary and uncontrollable.

The Cancellation Waiver Program will waive your cancellation penalty for job termination provided: 1) your job loss is the result of your involuntary termination of employment or layoff; 2) was not under your control; and 3) you must have been continuously employed with the same employer for 1 year prior to the termination or layoff.

Performers enact pistol duels, and similar to Maybe this act..., their bodies repeatedly convulse, as if involuntary controlled by the impulse of technology.

The paying parent will have to overcome this by presenting evidence to show that the parent isn't trying to avoid the obligation and that the reason the parent isn't working harder is involuntary and outside the parent's control.

While a completely severed cord causes paralysis and loss of sensation below the severed section of cord, a partially severed or damaged cord might result in symptoms such as involuntary movements or muscle spasms, weakness or decreased motor control involving one or more limbs, loss or altered sensation in certain parts of the body, impaired bowel or bladder function, and other nervous system dysfunction.

Such laws are often targeted at persons with intellectual or mental health disabilities and include those that result in involuntary institutionalization, forced birth control and sterilization, segregation away from the mainstream of the population and laws that otherwise deny basic rights: LCO Disabilities Report at 42.

This means that if the paying parent goes to court, the paying parent will have to present evidence to show that the parent isn't trying to avoid the obligation and that the reason the parent isn't working harder is involuntary and outside the parent's control.

Upon an involuntary termination of Mr. Suh's employment within 12 months after a change in control of LegalZoom, he would have received a cash severance payment equal to one year of base salary and his then - outstanding unvested stock options, restricted stock, stock appreciation rights and stock units would become fully vested immediately before his termination of employment.

It must be an involuntary termination or layoff and not within your control.

j. your involuntary termination of employment or layoff, which occurs more than 15 days after your effective date of coverage and was not under your control.

For others, it's an involuntary reaction to stress, a logical form of damage control that nature has hardwired into you and Dr. Gottman's research supports this.

This definition emphasizes the importance of more sensitive, responsive, supportive and intellectually stimulating parenting or mature parenting focusing on cognitive, conscious, voluntary control rather than emotional, prompt, involuntary emotional reactivity to environmental stimuli in caregivers.

In adolescence, both typically developing youth and those with ASD report similar levels of adaptive, voluntary forms of emotion regulation (e.g., problem solving, emotional control), but those with ASD report higher levels of involuntary emotion regulation strategies that are generally considered to be maladaptive (e.g., rumination, intrusive thoughts, physiological and emotional arousal, mind going blank and numb)(Mazefsky et al. 2014).