Sentences with phrase «electrical impulses in»

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.
These are caused by an imbalance of the chemicals that transmit the electrical impulses in the brain.
An ECG, or electrocardiogram, is a measurement of the electrical impulses in the heart.
These include dehydration, the need for electrolytes (sales and minerals that conduct electrical impulses in the body).
Instead of the SA node (the «spark plug») starting and coordinating the electrical signal, many areas within the atria send out electrical impulses in a rapid, disorganized manner.
Seizures are caused by abnormal electrical impulses in your puppy's brain, which can have a variety of causes.
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.
In AF, electrical impulses in the upper chambers of the heart are chaotic, and the atrial walls quiver rather than contracting normally in moving blood to the lower chambers.
Shock waves created by electrical impulses in a water bath separate the individual components at their predetermined break points.
Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have discovered a previously unknown molecular binding site that can influence electrical impulses in nerves.
Meanwhile, in a separate room, grad student Chris Larson watches the woman on a video screen and records the shifting pattern of electrical impulses in her brain.
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.
Atrial fibrillation occurs when electrical impulses in the upper chambers of the heart, called the atria, become chaotic and cause an irregular heartbeat.
Scores of laboratories at universities and in private industry are uncovering how to use these cells, which transform into neurons, astrocytes (the cells that regulate transmission of electrical impulses in the brain) and oligodendrocytes (which insulate nerve fibers with a fatty coating).
In a second study, (abstract 2.348) researchers from New York University's Langone Medical Center find that genetic mutations altering the transmission of electrical impulses in the heart and brain may raise the risk of SUDEP in people.
Reductionist analyses are analyses of the objective aspects of living organisms such as the conduction of electrical impulses in nerves or the biochemistry of the formation of blood.
Trust me, your whole personality is just chemical reactions and electrical impulses in the brain, drugs just tweek it a little so it feels better
In need of fresh ideas, the drugmaker is banking on implantable devices capable of altering electrical impulses in the body

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They discovered that catfish created electrical impulses that kept the other fish alive, so they put catfish in the holds.
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».
Steven Hawking likens the brain to a computer, which in the strictest sense of the word is true, because like a computer it runs on electrical impulses and makes calculations 24/7.
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.
Remove the electrical impulses which deliver the instructions to your organs / limbs and those charges do not gather up into a ball / shadow / spirit to exit the body, rather they slowly disipate; as do the electrical charges in your computer's volitile memory.
Electrical impulses have been occurring in the human brain for as long as human beings have been on the scene.
He might even put some electrodes to my brain and register electrical impulses, say in some part of the cortex.
To illustrate, research has discovered that changes in our skin temperature and the degree of skin conductivity of small electrical impulses (both indications of our degree of general relaxation) are correlated with emotional changes.
Maybe... A more fatalist approach would tell us that we are all indeed robots, subject to chemical reactions, electrical impulses, physical law, in such a detailed and profound way that we are actually able to perceive ourselves as having free thought — making choices and decisions, having feelings, reacting to input.
The only mammal with electroreception, it uses sensors in its bill to detect electrical impulses sent out by prey in murky water.
Prestin changes shape when exposed to high - frequency sound, and this in turn deforms the fine hair cells, setting off an electrical impulse to the brain.
In the late 1960s, Katz determined that the amount of acetylcholine in a vesicle was related to the electrical potential at the terminal of an axon — the long extension of a neuron that transmits the impulsIn the late 1960s, Katz determined that the amount of acetylcholine in a vesicle was related to the electrical potential at the terminal of an axon — the long extension of a neuron that transmits the impulsin a vesicle was related to the electrical potential at the terminal of an axon — the long extension of a neuron that transmits the impulse.
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 rhythm.
Participants who understood BRONCANTO's rules exhibited very different reactions to sentences containing an error in sentence structure or grammar than did members of the control group: initially, upon hearing a blunder, the electrical impulses to one region of the brain decreased.
Together with researchers from Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) Pontedera, Università degli Studi in Milan and Scuola Superiore Sant» Anna in Pisa, Francesco Greco from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Graz presents a novel method in Advanced Science which raises the transmission of electrical impulses from human to machine to the next level using printed tattoo electrodes.
BRAIN shrinkage in people with Alzheimer's disease can be reversed in some cases — by jolting the degenerating tissue with electrical impulses.
In 2003, Nicolelis's Duke lab gained international attention by showing that monkeys could move robot arms with just their thoughts, feeding electrical impulses from their brains into a computer linked to robotic arms.
In a study published in the Journal of Neuro - Engineering and Rehabilitation, Wisconsin neuroscientist Yuri Danilov and his team applied painless electrical impulses to the tip of the tongue of MS patients during physical therapIn a study published in the Journal of Neuro - Engineering and Rehabilitation, Wisconsin neuroscientist Yuri Danilov and his team applied painless electrical impulses to the tip of the tongue of MS patients during physical therapin the Journal of Neuro - Engineering and Rehabilitation, Wisconsin neuroscientist Yuri Danilov and his team applied painless electrical impulses to the tip of the tongue of MS patients during physical therapy.
In AF, electrical impulses are triggered from many areas in and around the upper chambers (atria) of the heart instead of just one areIn AF, electrical impulses are triggered from many areas in and around the upper chambers (atria) of the heart instead of just one arein and around the upper chambers (atria) of the heart instead of just one area.
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.
They form a complex network connecting various centres in the brain through electrical impulses.
The implant can also be used to monitor electrical impulses from the brain in real time.
All these fast, slow and intermediate electrical impulses and synaptic connections happen continuously, with their pace peaking in the morning.
In areas near where he'd inflicted lesions, the dendrites of the existing cells — the long, tentacled parts of neurons that conduct electrical impulses — had sprouted new branches, each ending with hundreds of new synapses.
In people with these conditions the photoreceptors, which transform light hitting the eye into electrical impulses, are damaged, preventing the brain from receiving image information.
It also delivers mild electrical impulses applied to the area of the head involved in the patients» own tinnitus - altering maneuvers.
These signals come in bursts, so the number and spacing of the electrical impulses from climbing fiber to Purkinje cell might be significant.
The answer is that they all affect the ability of nerves to transmit electrical impulses by affecting the ion channels in nerves.
During this split second of surprise, electrodes in the cap register a cascade of electrical impulses known as a P - 300 response.
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.
In the 19th century, the pioneering neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal theorized that information was processed in our heads each time an electrical impulse traveled across a synapse, the gap between one nerve cell and the nexIn the 19th century, the pioneering neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal theorized that information was processed in our heads each time an electrical impulse traveled across a synapse, the gap between one nerve cell and the nexin our heads each time an electrical impulse traveled across a synapse, the gap between one nerve cell and the next.
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 processorIn 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 processorin 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.
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