Sentences with phrase «from brain stem»

The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in the body, running from the brain stem through organs in the neck, thorax and abdomen.

This movement is managed by the vagus nerve which runs from the brain stem, through the diaphragm into the gut.

The vagus nerve «wanders» from the brain stem through the organs in the neck and thorax and finally terminates in the abdomen.

These two systems are connected via the vagus nerve, the tenth cranial nerve that runs from your brain stem down to your abdomen.

As the longest cranial nerve, it extends from the brain stem right down to the abdomen, allowing signals to pass freely between these locations.

The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve, extending from your brain stem to your abdomen.

Scientists understand that signals sent from the brain stem instruct the throat, chest and abdominal muscles, especially the diaphragm, to expand and contract involuntarily, drawing in and expelling air.

Each Purkinje cell receives messages from a climbing fiber, a type of neuron that extends from the brain stem and sends feedback about the associated muscles.

McCabe says keeping the body alive from the brain stem down defeats warm ischemia, the restriction or loss of blood flow after conventional death.

Not exact matches

That stems in part from the presence in our brains of a well - developed frontal lobe, an evolutionary advantage we hold over the rest of the animal kingdom.

For White, the problems don't just stem from the risk of brain damage, it's the distorted message about things like masculinity that the NFL sends to fans and young players.

In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)

The rear facing position is safest because, if you are hit from behind and your child is facing forward, the severity of whip lash can be brain damaging, now if there legs hang over the seat, and they are rear facing they have the risk of breaking a leg, but there brain and stem will still be intact.

This need stems from the mammalian brain, a commonality that affects cats, dogs, mice... and humans!

The teen years lend themselves to some questionable behavior and unstable moods, much of which stems from your teen's ongoing brain development.

Scientists still don't know exactly why some babies die without explanation, but recent research points to the possibility of brain stem abnormalities that prevent some babies from being able to rouse from sleep and gasp for air when their blood oxygen levels are too low.

When we are having big emotions, we are physically coming from our reptilian brain stem, where the fight, flight or freeze response comes from.

Chris» interest in brain trauma stems from...

President Nana Akufo - Addo, whose political history stems from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), formed on August 4, 1947 to bring about Ghanaian independence, stirred controversy when in his presidential inauguration address he suggested that members of the UGCC including his father Edward Akudo - Addo and uncle, J.B Danquah, were the main brains behind Ghana's independence.

The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

Tiny balls of brain tissue made from donated stem cells from children with autism or a condition that makes them hyper - sociable show intriguing differences

STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of brain cells that make other brain cells less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-autistic family member (left).

Balls of brain tissue generated from stem cells are enabling us to understand the underlying differences between people who struggle to be sociable and those who have difficulty reining themselves in.

«Attention deficit disorders could stem from impaired brain coordination: Researchers uncover link absent between brain regions in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia.»

According to the study results, YAP is excluded from the nucleus on the soft gels, and its depletion there helps drive the stem cells onto a brain cell developmental pathway.

The authors searched for genetic mutations that might explain the disproportionately high risk of SUDEP in people with poorly controlled focal epilepsy, which, by definition stems from a specific area of the brain.

The new therapy, which Lumley and co-developer Howard Schubiner, M.D., director of the Mind Body Medicine Program at Providence Hospital, call Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), helps patients view their pain and other symptoms as stemming from changeable neural pathways in the brain that are strongly influenced by emotions.

If we can learn lessons from Zika's ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and target brain stem cells selectively, we could be holding the key to future treatments.»

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

He surmises that the root cause of the brain drain that is afflicting many countries stems from «structural problems in the world of science.»

The virus does this because, unlike most microbes, Zika can pass from blood into the brain, where it infects and kills stem cells, having severe effects on developing brains.

The movement disorder stems from the death of neurons that produce dopamine, a neurochemical that dispatches messages to parts of the brain that control motor skills and coordination.

Svendsen is more optimistic about his team's work involving human tests of a novel stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease in which cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles wither or die.

«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

If we can boost the immune system and allow microglia to do their job and control brain tumor stem cells, it would be like removing the seed from the soil — stopping the tumor growth before it starts to get out of control.»

This is because larger brain parts are thought to have a later and longer process of neurogenesis — the development of neurons or nerve cells from neural stem cells and progenitor cells.

Arriaga has identified a direct connection from the motor cortex, which controls fine motor skills, to the brain stem, which controls the larynx.

Brazilian researchers from the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have demonstrated the harmful effects of ZIKA virus (ZIKV) in human neural stem cells, neurospheres and brain organoids.

But in this case, the undifferentiated stem cells, harvested from 14 - day - old mouse brains, did not simply replace neurons that had died off.

Minuscule blobs of human brain tissue have come a long way in the four years since scientists in Vienna discovered how to create them from stem cells.

Abnormal brain activity in psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is thought to stem in part from impaired function of the NMDA receptor.

In this case, its apparent consciousness - raising effects stem from the multiple and far - flung connections it makes throughout the brain directly or indirectly, including with the thalamus.

The circuit incorporates brain regions involved in reward and pleasure, leading the authors to consider that social dysfunction may stem from reduced enjoyment in social interaction.

The reservoir is the brain stem of the system that helps sustain just about every person from here to San Diego.

Shen - Ying Zhang, assistant professor of clinical investigation in the Casanova lab, evaluated seven children from unrelated families who had been exposed to a common virus (herpes simplex virus 1, influenza virus, or norovirus) and developed a life - threatening or lethal infection of the brain stem.

The mice benefited from human stem cells called glial progenitors, immature cells poised to become astrocytes and other glia cells, the supposed support cells of the brain.

However, the conclusions pertaining to speech generally stem from studies that rely on indirect measurements of brain activity, raising questions about characterizing speech as lateralized.

Much of the current confusion in neuroscience research on fear stems from the conflation of two separate phenomena that are both labeled «fear»: behavioral and physiological fear responses elicited by threats, such as a snake or a mugger, and conscious feelings of fear, which occur in the same situation but are controlled by a different brain system.

The way males and females handle their anger or emotionally upsetting situations — women may feel sick to their stomach, while men tend to act out — may also stem from fundamental differences in how their brains have evolved.