Sentences with phrase «electrical impulses for»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Medical device giant Medtronic has received FDA clearance for its latest non-medication pain treatment: Intellis, a system which stimulates the spinal cord with electrical impulses to block pain messages from making it to the brain.

It's get's a bit less clear when you start to speak of «hope» for some future eternal resting place for the electrical impulses being fired in our brains that you like to call a «soul».

Electrical impulses have been occurring in the human brain for as long as human beings have been on the scene.

I mean, I don't know about you, but I'd rather die relatively quickly (~ 2h, max, for the majority of fatal bullet wounds) or lose a limb than die because I'm coughing so hard my lungs shred themselves (mustard gas) or because my muscles, constantly triggered by uncontrollable electrical impulses, use up all the oxygen before my brain can (VX).

For patients at known risk for this or other heart rhythm abnormalities, an implantable cardioverter - defibrillator, or ICD, may be placed in the chest or abdomen to detect faulty electrical impulses and provide a shock to return normal rhytFor patients at known risk for this or other heart rhythm abnormalities, an implantable cardioverter - defibrillator, or ICD, may be placed in the chest or abdomen to detect faulty electrical impulses and provide a shock to return normal rhytfor this or other heart rhythm abnormalities, an implantable cardioverter - defibrillator, or ICD, may be placed in the chest or abdomen to detect faulty electrical impulses and provide a shock to return normal rhythm.

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.

Action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, are electrical messages sent from our brains to other organs and muscles; for instance, nerves in the brain transmit action potentials through neural networks to direct our arm muscles to contract in order to call into action our hands to lift or hold an item, a primary research focus at the Columbia Motor Neuron Center, to which both the Zhang and Wichterle labs are affiliated.

Researchers discovered a gene also found in humans helps zebrafish convert water motion into electrical impulses that are sent to the brain for perception.

As for those patients whose brains are trapped in inanimate bodies, implants that pick up electrical impulses can already translate neural signals to control a cursor, move a wheelchair, or say hello, although they are not now suitable for people with severe brain injuries.

With a remote control, Darrel uses the stimulator for up to 45 minutes each day, applying different programs to transmit electrical impulses into his spinal cord that mimic the same signals that would come from the brain.

In the journal Applied Physics Letters, which is produced by AIP Publishing, the scientists describe the theoretical framework for an acoustic diode — a device that achieves a one - way transmission of sound waves much the same as an electrical diode controls the one - way transmission of electrical impulses.

The myelin sheath enables rapid conduction of electrical impulses, and its appropriate organization is critical for proper nerve activity.

Electrical signals could also play an important role in modeling brain tissue, in which neurons communicate via electrical impulses, and for mimicking wound healing, which uses electrical signaling to guide cells to areas that neElectrical signals could also play an important role in modeling brain tissue, in which neurons communicate via electrical impulses, and for mimicking wound healing, which uses electrical signaling to guide cells to areas that neelectrical impulses, and for mimicking wound healing, which uses electrical signaling to guide cells to areas that neelectrical signaling to guide cells to areas that need repair.

In many animals, including humans, electrical impulses must spread rapidly and in a coordinated fashion along a dedicated network of cardiac cells in order for the heart to pump blood efficiently to the rest of the body.

Recent studies of various mouse strains showing «striking differences» in the repair of axons — the long, slender projections in nerve cells that conduct electrical impulses — could be applied to human cells «to identify biomarkers of central nervous system repair potential and provide new targets for intervention,» he says.

Skin cells, for example, are small and compact, while nerve cells that enable you to wiggle your toes have long, branching nerve fibers called axons that conduct electrical impulses.

The cells created by Dr. Ding's experiments exchanged the electrical impulses necessary for brain cells to communicate things such as thoughts and emotions.

The mechanism, known as a responsive neurostimulation device, would monitor the brain's reward center for signs of the electrical signal that occurs right before an impulsive decision is made and deliver a dose of electricity to suppress the impulse.

It is required for the development and maintenance of strong bones and teeth and, along with sodium, regulates the cellular membrane potential that allows muscles to contract and neurons to transmit electrical impulses.

For example, fats are critical for brain and nervous system function because the myelin (a sheath around nerve fibers that that electrical impulses are transmitted) is made of essential fatty aciFor example, fats are critical for brain and nervous system function because the myelin (a sheath around nerve fibers that that electrical impulses are transmitted) is made of essential fatty acifor brain and nervous system function because the myelin (a sheath around nerve fibers that that electrical impulses are transmitted) is made of essential fatty acids.

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

These include dehydration, the need for electrolytes (sales and minerals that conduct electrical impulses in the body).

The machine will read the electrical impulses coming from the heart as the heart works to pump blood, and then provide a graph for your veterinarian to read.

Gunnar Davis is a heavy weapons specialist with an assault rifle as a primary weapon and a pistol for a secondary weapon, while his special abilities include Shockwave which sends a powerful electrical impulse that knocks down enemies; Stasis projects a stasis field that stops time for enemies albeit while simultaneously protecting them from incoming fire, but could still be useful to strategically change position, finding cover or running past a large group of enemies; Barrier creates a protective energy bubble that prevents damage from being received by Gunnar; and Storm hits enemies with a lightning strike.

Given that premise, our job is to work out the details and they have hardly been all worked out, but when considering what premises are available upon which to base an «ethics» it seems one that starts with an axiom that an objective ethics is possible offers a helluva lot more potential for what we want, for what serves the life of a rational, sentient being, than one that says it's a matter of your bowels, or random electrical impulses in your brain or that your mind that tells you to murder my children is the moral equivalent of my mind telling me to protect yours.