Sentences with phrase «motor pathways»

This is the result of an interruption of motor pathways due to an injury to the spine.

The GPe is known to contribute to suppressing motor pathways in the basal ganglia, but little is known about the individual types of neurons present in the GPe, their role in Parkinson's disease or their therapeutic potential.

In this instance, your brain's commands to the sneeze muscles in both your diaphragm and your throat are cross-connected to the outgoing motor pathways that closed your eyes.

«We also noticed an accumulation of debris of interneurons — the cells that serve as a connection between sensory and motor pathways for reflexes — in the hippocampus, which is responsible for memory storage.»

One of the theories says that the same exact motor pathways that run the necessary movement are pre-activated by the mental imagery.

Once your body starts to build neurological motor pathways (highway from brain to muscle), your movemements will become more fluid and coordinated.

Most researchers assumed that young birds babbled because they were still learning to develop the nerves of the «motor pathway» that controls these muscles.

«One possibility is that the motor pathway starts out crappy,» says neuroscientist Michale Fee at MIT, who was also involved in the study.

The motor cortex, the region of the brain that governs movement, lies at the end of the sensory - to - motor pathway and controls the muscles of the body.

If a disease damages one portion of a motor pathway, for example, it might be possible to stimulate neurons further down the circuit, closer to the spinal cord, to initiate sequences of action.

Why is it that neurons in motor pathways, which can produce a large repertoire of different outputs and thereby relay a large amount of information about different conscious states, do not contribute directly to consciousness?