Sentences with phrase «electrical signals in»

The Apple Watch will pass an imperceptible current across your chest to track electrical signals in the heart, detecting any abnormalities like irregular heart rates.

Many cases of arrhythmia can be traced to a single spot transmitting rogue electrical signals in the heart.

Contracted muscles, which can be a source of pain, calm down A machine picks up electrical signals in the muscles.

helps control electrical signals in inhibitory brain cells, and it is highly expressed in the thalamus.

SCN1A helps control electrical signals in inhibitory brain cells, and it is highly expressed in the thalamus.

The neurons, isolated from rats, produce bursts of electrical signals in various patterns, which can be â $ œtunedâ $ by the inputs they receive.

He wants to know how the interplay of structural, chemical, and electrical signals in and between cells of nervous tissue gives rise to behavior.

At the same time, she measured electrical signals in neighboring neurons using microelectrodes that can record small voltage changes across a neuron's membrane.

Even if mutations are rare, however, locating a gene and its associated protein, says cardiologist Douglas Zipes of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, «will give a major advantage» to researchers trying to unravel the biochemical triggers of the erratic electrical signals in all patients.

The dangers of Afib, which is caused by misfiring electrical signals in the heart, include a higher risk of stroke, blood clots, and heart failure, and symptoms that may include heart palpitations, shortness of breath and fatigue.

Existing controllable prostheses work by converting electrical signals in a person's arm or leg into movement.

Special software is able to decode his thoughts and convert them into electrical signals in his hand, bypassing the damaged nerves in his spine.

To determine if depression has an effect on vision, neuropsychiatrist Ludger Tebartz van Elst of the University of Freiburg hooked up depressed patients and control subjects to a pattern electroretinograph, a device that measures electrical signals in the retina.

Neuroprosthetics can not only be controlled through electrical signals in the brain, but may soon provide sensory information through brain - machine - brain interfaces.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Huang's work focuses on technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs.

Such symptoms are a result of faulty electrical signals in the central nervous system.

The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles.

Electrical signals in a majority of amygdala neurons mirrored the animal's behavior — they fired more in response to the dangerous tone compared to the safe one.

The electrical signals in the muscles are sensed by electrodes on the skin.

«This is a big step in determining the identity of key components of the molecular machinery that converts sound waves into electrical signals in the inner ear,» said the study's co-senior author, Gregory Frolenkov, of the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky.

Love is an emotion, a mix of hormones, chemicals, and electrical signals in the brain and body.

* Thalmic Labs This startup, based in Kitchener, Ontario, makes an A.I. - infused armband that measures electrical signals in the wearer's muscles and enables them to control everything from phones and laptops to bionic limbs (for amputees).

Ghosh and Chattarji's new findings explain how aberrant electrical signaling in individual neurons can add up to give rise to amygdala hyperactivity and generalization of fear in PTSD.

Four HCN genes that code for proteins which form ion channels in neurons could be involved, because these channels are vital for electrical signalling in nerves.

Then they pulsed electrical current — similar to the current in a brain — through each slice and measured the strength of the electrical signal in the synapses.

To achieve this, they have developed a layout in which a nanocomponent is connected to two electrical conductors, which uncouple the electrical signal in a highly efficient manner.

Not exact matches

Colorado - based Cochlear's processors gather sound from the environment, turning it into an electrical signal and send it to an electrode implanted in the ears of people with hearing loss.

In the 1900s, a U.S. army officer named George Owen Squier developed a method to transmit radio signals along electrical and telephone wires.

Embedded in the headset are 16 electrodes that press lightly on my scalp, monitoring the electrical signals generated by the 3 pounds of toothpaste - like goo sealed in my skull.

However, I do not believe that it could not possibly survive the death of the body because it is embodied in the unique patterns of electrical and chemical signals in the brain.

Technically, it was an accident; the proximate cause was the breakdown in the electrical signals between his besotted brain and his fumbling fingers.

In animal studies, too much fibrin in the central nervous system has been associated with breakdown of the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves and allows them to conduct electrical signals properlIn animal studies, too much fibrin in the central nervous system has been associated with breakdown of the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves and allows them to conduct electrical signals properlin the central nervous system has been associated with breakdown of the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves and allows them to conduct electrical signals properly.

These materials are also used in everyday devices, such as loudspeakers, which rely on piezoelectrics to convert electrical signals to mechanical vibrations which create sound waves to produce the desired acoustic signal.

In most vertebrates and some mollusks, the eye works by allowing light to enter it and project onto a light - sensitive panel of cells known as the retina at the rear of the eye, where the light is detected and converted into electrical signals.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cellIn 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cellin the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

The semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) is widely used, for instance in infrared remote controls, the high - frequency components of mobile phones and for converting electrical signals into light for fibre optical transmission, as well as in solar panels for deployment in spacecraft.

We perceive sound after vibrations in the inner ear are detected by «hair cells» and transmitted to the brain as electrical signals.

Retinal tissue contains light - sensitive cells that absorb wavelengths in the visible spectrum and convert them into electrical signals.

These neutral hydrogen atoms might also signal the approach of solar storms — gusts in the solar wind that can disrupt satellites, radio communications, and electrical power grids.

To transmit electrical signals along a neuron, a strong difference in charge between the interior and exterior of the cell is needed, which is created by pumping positive ions into the cell.

The Kinect's camera tracked the roach's movements, and if it veered away from the target, the software would instantly send an electrical signal to keep the roach moving in the right direction.

Sure enough, when Bullmore's team measured the length of time that two electrical signals from random locations in the brain were «in phase», it was the same at all signal frequencies (PLoS Computational Biology, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pcbi.1000314).

When the team applied the technique to a sample of the organic molecule PTCDA, not only did the molecules show up in intricate detail, an electrical signal was also detected between them (coloured green below), at exactly the locations where hydrogen bonds are present (Journal of the American Chemical Society, DOI: 10.1021 / ja104332t).

We might think that the brain works in a similar way to a computer: after all, even computers work through electrical signals.

Rather than tapping the optical signal, though, Payne says it would be easier to wait until the equipment converts it into an electrical signal that computers can read before patching in.

Although a cell phone is much less powerful than TMS, the question still remains: Could the electrical signals coming from a phone affect certain brainwaves operating in resonance with cell phone transmission frequencies?

When mature, these cells grow hairs that bend in response to sound, generating electrical signals.

We know that in the human brain there are about one hundred billion neurons that communicate by means of electrical signals.

Electrochromic materials dynamically alter how they transmit light in response to an applied electrical signal.