Sentences with phrase «controls voluntary movement»

The paralysis is sometimes the result of a traumatic brain injury that damages the myelin sheath of the nerve cells; locked - in syndrome is caused by damage to the brain's vertical pons, a region that controls voluntary movement.
We develop computational models of neuromuscular systems such as the arm to test hypotheses about how the brain controls voluntary movement, and how motor learning is achieved.
In 2004, surgeons placed a tiny 100 - electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processors.
The ultimate cause of Parkinson's is unknown but clearly involves the loss of a set of neurons that control voluntary movement.
The function of controlling voluntary movement and sensory processing is distributed across a wide set of brain regions including the neocortex, the cerebellum, the brain stem and the spinal cord, which are all richly activated during any aspect of voluntary movement and sensory perception.
Motor neurons are long and complex nerve cells that control voluntary movement.

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Halo Sport uses electrodes to stimulate the brain's motor cortex, which controls planning and voluntary movements.
But the cerebral cortex — the part of the brain that has thoughts, stores memories, and controls voluntary muscle movement — only kicks into gear after encountering the world outside the womb.
Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakness and progressive wasting of the muscles, while ALS impacts nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.
Friedreich's is the most common recessive ataxia (a lack of muscle control in voluntary movement) and results from deficient expression of the small mitochondrial protein frataxin.
The individual had the characteristic pattern of MCS: minimum motor control, mainly voluntary eye movements, and, infrequently, single words or other vocalizations; he could not even eat by mouth.
According to neurologists R. John Leigh and David Zee, authors of the comprehensive The Neurology of Eye Movements (Oxford University Press, 1999), schizophrenics show consistent abnormalities in the voluntary control of saccades, particularly in tasks requiring imagination, memory or prediction.
The motor nerves that are affected when you have ALS are the motor neurons that provide voluntary movements and muscle control.
Investigation of movement patterns produced by different patient groups and healthy adults provides a window into the brain with respect to the control of voluntary movement.
In the laboratory «Neural Basis of Sensorimotor Control» we study brain circuitry mechanisms for voluntary movement control and sensory processing that involves the arm anControl» we study brain circuitry mechanisms for voluntary movement control and sensory processing that involves the arm ancontrol and sensory processing that involves the arm and hand.
This consortium of researchers, clinicians, and patients, has «systematically investigated and graded» evidence for over 35 «alternative» treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal disease that destroys the nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.
SMA is typically marked by the degeneration of voluntary muscle movement including the muscles that control crawling, walking, swallowing or breathing.
Whereas there has been extensive work on the neural mechanisms that subserve voluntary limb movement, comparatively little is known about how the motor system modulates the mechanical properties of the limb through the neural control of limb stiffness.
We use models to study the form of time - varying control signals to muscles that the central nervous system must generate to produce voluntary movement.
Diverse approaches such as multisensory integration searches, psychophysics of perception of gravitational movements, control of eye movements, interlimb coordination, muscle synergies, and locomotor rhythms are considered for the generation of voluntary movement.
These are your voluntary (VOL - uhn - ter - ee) muscles, which means you can control their movements.
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