Sentences with phrase «measures changes in the heart»

Every time I perform an electrocardiogram (EKG), which measures changes in the heart's electric currents, I am reminded that our bodies are energetic...

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The tiny sensors, which consist of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the body — a process that follows in rhythm with the beating of the heart.

To contrast the solemn splendor of today's liturgy in Westminster Cathedral, with the previous papal Mass there in 1982 is to witness a measure of the vast change Benedict XVI has already wrought in the heart of the Church.

First off, lets quote what laurie said in the original post,» First, I think changing sand in hawaii to the world isn't an egrecious error, isn't the heart of the question asking to measure something that's seemingly impossible to measure?

September 14: Take in a screening of Beyond Measure: Schools at the Heart of Change, a new film by the makers of Race to Nowhere (Natick)

Their flipped votes, along with a change of heart by then - Brooklyn Sen. Carl Kruger, meant all New York Senate Democrats except for Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. (D - Bronx) were in support of the measure.

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

Many previous studies have focused on measuring psychophysiological metrics, including driver eye movements, muscle activity and changes in heart rate to determine alertness.

Just three to five minutes spent looking at views dominated by trees, flowers or water can begin to reduce anger, anxiety and pain and to induce relaxation, according to various studies of healthy people that measured physiological changes in blood pressure, muscle tension, or heart and brain electrical activity.

Using this «Ribotag» approach tissue - specific changes under DR have been measured in muscle, fat, gut, heart, neurons, germline and malpighian tubules, showing a highly tissue specific response upon DR.. We are developing mechanistic models of gene expression regulation and conducting comprehensive bioinformatics analyses on UTRs, promoters and the coding sequences of various elements of differentially regulated genes.

«Many clinical trials in pulmonary hypertension also use the catheter test as an outcome measure, but it could provide a significant advantage to be able to replace it with a less invasive MRI scan, as our model also provides more detailed information on physical changes to the heart itself.»

The change in «heart rate» was measured using the highly sensitive electrodes in the microelectrode array.

fMRI is generally thought to be no more or less reliable than the traditional polygraph test, which measures the changes in various physiological parameters — such as heart rate, blood pressure and skin conductance — that can change when someone is lying.

The researchers only measured heart health at the beginning of the study, and the heart - disease risk factors of some participants may have changed significantly in the following decade, potentially skewing the results.

In a classic study measuring the impact of fat ingestion on patients with serious heart disease, a single meal rich in butter fat resulted in EKG changes and angina chest pain in nearly half of the patientIn a classic study measuring the impact of fat ingestion on patients with serious heart disease, a single meal rich in butter fat resulted in EKG changes and angina chest pain in nearly half of the patientin butter fat resulted in EKG changes and angina chest pain in nearly half of the patientin EKG changes and angina chest pain in nearly half of the patientin nearly half of the patients.

We also aim to determine whether this new measure is sensitive to second - to - second changes in children's physiological arousal (e.g., skin conductance, heart rate, movement), as measured using a wearable but non-intrusive autonomic sensing device.

The heart rates of the pups were then measured to understand the physiological and behavioural changes in them according to the songs they were listening to.

Variations in HR occur due to the constant need of the heart to adapt to changing circumstances, and it is thought that loss of balance of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems causes an alteration to the structure of HRV.5 6 HRV, as a measure of nervous system balance, can therefore provide a quantification of physiological changes associated with mental health disorders, with many studies investigating these associations through a number of time domain, frequency domain and non-linear methods of quantifying HRV.7 — 9

He uses a scientific method to code their verbal and body language second by second, along with every change in their heart rates, blood pressures and other physiological measures of tension and calmness.

Reactivity measures of the hypothalamic pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis and autonomic nervous system (ANS) biomarkers (heart rate, HR; respiratory sinus arrhythmia, RSA; and pre-ejection period, PEP) to a social stress task were used to predict concurrent and longitudinal changes in internalizing and externalizing symptoms.