Sentences with phrase «electrical impulses»

His work did lead to the discovery of electrical impulses in nerve tissue — all living things generate a kind of electricity throughout the body — especially the brain.

An experimental device that delivers electrical impulses in order to create alternate communication pathways between the brain and lower limbs is showing promise.

But they also frequently work together, sending electrical impulses back and forth between regions.

When we eat, it translates the chemistry of our food into electrical impulses for our brain.

It's responsible for conducting electrical impulses, sending signals, contracting muscles (especially the heart), not to mention keeping those teeth and bones strong.

The answer is that they all affect the ability of nerves to transmit electrical impulses by affecting the ion channels in nerves.

The battery creates electrical impulses that the electrodes deliver to the brain tissue.

In the laboratory, this circuit continues to show spontaneous bursts of coordinated electrical impulses for many hours.

They also carry electrical impulses across the cell and to neighboring cells in order to promote muscle contractions and nerve impulses.

Regardless of the machine, the devices work by sending tiny electrical impulses through the body and measuring how quickly those impulses return.

This is a trial of a computer - music system that interacts directly with the user's brain, by picking up the tiny electrical impulses of neurons.

The cells respond to vibrations by producing electrical impulses that travel via nerves to the brain.

It is helped by an electrical organ in its tail, which emits electrical impulses.

It also helps your nerves send the small electrical impulses required for nerve function, and it contributes to blood vessel function.

During this split second of surprise, electrodes in the cap register a cascade of electrical impulses known as a P - 300 response.

Researchers want to inject them into the brain to sense electrical impulses.

These are microscopic gates that allow neighboring cells to exchange ions, molecules and electrical impulses quickly and directly.

Our thoughts, our soul if you wish, is nothing more than neurons and electrical impulses within our brain.

He might even put some electrodes to my brain and register electrical impulses, say in some part of the cortex.

After a spinal cord injury, nearby neurons lose insulation and the ability to communicate via natural electrical impulses.

Using a custom - made hand - pad, high - frequency electrical impulses were applied to the fingertips.

Researchers used flashes of blue light to trigger neurons to fire off electrical impulses in genetically modified in mice.

Since lean tissue conducts electrical impulses quicker than fatty tissue, a faster response time is correlated with a leaner physique.

They communicate with one another by way of chemically - mediated electrical impulses.

Maintaining an optimal nervous system improves the function of your retina, the part of your eye that contains the nerves that convert images into electrical impulses for your brain to interpret.

I think of the brain as being a complex series of «wires» that conduct electrical impulse.

It wasn't easy: unlike nerve cells, immune cells don't use tiny electrical impulses to communicate.

Signals wander inside the brain as electrical impulses from nerve cell to nerve cell.

Rods are small cylindrical structures connected to the cell body, which gives rise to the axon, the projection from which electrical impulses travel towards the other neurons to become visual perception.

These photoreceptors transform light into electrical impulses along nerve pathways from the retina to the brain, which produce color.

The research team will be able to stimulate the neurons with electrical impulses from the robot's hand to help regrowth after injury.

Steven Hawking likens the brain to computer, which in the strictest sense of the word is true, because like a computer it runs on electrical impulses.

More than 2.5 million Americans have epilepsy, a disorder in which abnormal electrical impulses in the brain affect a variety of mental and physical functions.

Thync's Vibe delivers electrical impulses to the nervous system that can either calm or energize the user.

Electrical impulses cause the molecular structure of the glass to change at continuously varying levels between light and dark according to preference.

The satellite, which swoops on an egg - shaped orbit to within 350 kilometers of Earth's surface, detected electrical impulses from electrons coursing upward within charged sheets that shadow the downward flowing auroral electrons.

That's when two researchers at Uppsala University, Åke Vallbo and Karl - Erik Hagbarth, discovered the process of microneurography and used it to record electrical impulses from people's peripheral nerves.

Tau proteins, for their part, are vital to the structural integrity of neurons, acting like girders that stabilize synapses — the bridges that allow electrical impulses to cross between neurons.

In a series of experiments, neuroscientists used fMRI brain scanners to monitor electrical impulses moving back and forth between two specified regions of the brain.

The implant can also be used to monitor electrical impulses from the brain in real time.

Those substances fluoresce when neurons receive electrical impulses and become active.

The Gage team's previous breakthrough, published in Nature on October 28, 2015, suggested a reason, revealing that the neurons of people with bipolar disorder are more easily stimulated, firing electrical impulses more rapidly than the neurons of people without the disorder.

Led by Professor Christopher James, Director of Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine at the School of Engineering, technology has been developed which allows electronic devices to be activated using electrical impulses from brain waves, by connecting our thoughts to computerised systems.

It also delivers mild electrical impulses applied to the area of the head involved in the patients» own tinnitus - altering maneuvers.

These cells make up the sinoatrial node, which generates electrical impulses driving our heart beats.

Shock waves created by electrical impulses in a water bath separate the individual components at their predetermined break points.

Cardiac or skeletal muscle tissues (they also pass electrical impulses from cell to cell)?

Specifically, the research sheds light on the role of RPM - 1 in the development of axons or nerve fibers — the elongated projections of nerve cells that transmit electrical impulses away from the neuron via synapses.