Sentences with phrase «electrical pulses»

And each show is enhanced by the other: a sort of electrical pulse of ideas, back and forth through the space.

At the same time, the array delivered electrical pulses to his spinal cord just below his injury.

Nowadays we communicate via radio signals and send electrical pulses through long cables.

They make up the brain's hard wiring and send messages with electrical pulses.

Then as now, the primary function of a radio was to convert radio waves into small electrical pulses which, when amplified, could be converted into recognizable sound.

Some collars are designed with short electrical pulses that last from a few seconds to minutes or a continuous stimulation that will last as long as the remote is pressed.

Human trials have shown precisely timed sounds and weak electrical pulses delivered by the device can reduce or even eliminate that ringing in your ears.

Short and low electrical pulses help manage the pain and are best used early on in labor.

The device plays a sound into the ears, alternating it with precisely timed, mild electrical pulses delivered to the cheek or neck.

Both act as switches that can either transmit or not transmit electrical pulses, depending on signals they receive.

A stimulus of electrical pulses was used to activate the part of the brain that controls movement in the right thumb.

UNDER PRESSURE Physicists use powerful electrical pulses in the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories to create liquid metallic hydrogen for fleeting moments.

Several groups of fish have evolved the capacity to generate electrical pulses from specialised «electric organs», derived from either muscle tissue or nerve tissue.

«Optical modulators are electro - optical devices that modify the propagating light by applying electrical pulses,» says Lim.

He installed the ill - fitting resistor and noticed that the circuit emitted electrical pulses.

In a real brain, neurons receive electrical pulses from synapses until a sufficient voltage builds up across their membrane.

He took a cigar - size sample of hydrogen gas and exposed it to blasts of electricity from Sandia's Z Machine, which generates more powerful electrical pulses than any other man - made tool.

The cylinder, known as a liner, is connected to Sandia's vast electrical pulse generator (called the Z machine), which can deliver 26 million amps in a pulse lasting milliseconds or less.

A hair of a diode feeds electrical pulses into one side of a single cell; an electrode on the other side records that cell's response.

But researchers are investigating ways to provide electrical pulses only when needed by monitoring telltale brain activity related to a particular condition or symptom.

This is done by sending electrical pulses into the brain via a pipette filled with electrically conductive fluid.

Once there, its piezoelectric materials generate a heart - stimulating electrical pulse in response to ultrasound energy beamed to it by another implant in the left chest cavity.

After two or more weeks of recording the activity, doctors program the device to specifically respond to these abnormal signals by delivering imperceptible electrical pulses to the brain that normalize the activity.

They then receive electrical pulses from the virtual F - 22 that are timed to correspond to the angle of the plane's nose as it points above or below the horizon.

Neuroscientists typically induce electrical pulses in the neurons artificially in order to perform research on synaptic mechanisms.

In healthy hearts, a few thousand cells in two key locations trigger electrical pulses that spread to the remaining cells, signaling them to contract and make the heart beat.

Each ECT session delivered a 0.5 millisecond electrical pulse for 1 second, with a frequency of 100 Hertz and 40 milliamp current 3/4 about 5 percent of the total electrical charge given to a human patient.

For slightly more of a monetary investment, you could look into wearable tech like Thync, a device that produces electrical pulses to help your brain decrease stress.

Biophysicist Benoit Roux of the University of Chicago recently used the world's fastest supercomputer — Jaguar, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee — to see how each of the protein's 350,000 atoms would react to such electrical pulses.

Every pulse of light reliably triggered one or more electrical pulses in the infected neuron.

This might be particularly useful for the design of transducers — the parts of sonar systems that convert electrical pulses into sound waves — says Keith Brown at Heriot - Watt University in Edinburgh, UK.

It uses a small device that generates low - voltage electrical pulses to stimulate nerves, and thus provides targeted pain relief without opiates or surgical intervention.

Hundreds of yellow and white brain waves dance across a black backdrop, each representing the oscillating electrical pulses picked up by one of the 64 electrodes attached to her cortex as clusters of brain cells fire.

The device is designed to deliver electrical pulses if arrhythmia is detected.

A magnetic coil surrounds the tube and receives a short - lived electrical pulse to create a pressure within the tube that ejects a droplet of liquid metal through the orifice.

In the mid-1970s dream researcher J. Allan Hobson and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School proposed that the brain spontaneously generates electrical pulses while dreaming.

However, most commercial electroporation - based transfection methods require the use of specialized pulse generators to produce short electrical pulses at high voltage.

Previous research showed that sending electrical pulses through the tongue activated the neural network for balance; such activation may shore up the circuitry weakened by MS.

A neurostimulator delivers electrical pulses via the stimulation lead to the hypoglossal nerve, which controls the tongue.

Learning how rats escape from cats also reveals how a storm of electrical pulses sweeping across the brain is translated into information

When these photoreceptors detect light, they send a signal to specialized neurons in the retina called retinal ganglion cells, or RGCs, which then transmit visual information to the brain by firing electrical pulses along the optic nerve.

They also changed the electrode setup and added another layer of flexible electronic devices, known as ring oscillators, which convert the electrical signals emerging from the touch sensitive pyramids to a stream of digital electrical pulses.

It works by sending intermittent electrical pulses to the trunks in the abdominal vagus nerve, which is involved in regulating stomach emptying and signaling to the brain that the stomach feels empty or full.

The Maestro Rechargeable System consists of a rechargeable electrical pulse generator, wire leads and electrodes implanted surgically into the abdomen.

By observing these natural stimuli, professor Holtmaat's team was able to demonstrate that sensory stimulus alone can generate long - term synaptic strengthening without the neuron discharging either an induced or natural electrical pulse.

The weight loss and adverse events of 157 patients who received the active Maestro device (the experimental group) were compared to 76 patients in the control group who received a Maestro electrical pulse generator that was not activated.

When a pattern of electrical pulses passes round the ring, the distortions create a travelling wave which extends or contracts the lens to focus it.

Electrical pulses slowly convert the material from amorphous to crystalline, which, in turn, changes its conductance.

Even 400 LEDs can not normally defeat the dazzle from car headlights, so the ganged array is fed a rapid stream of very short, intense electrical pulses instead of a steady current.