Sentences with phrase «nerve cell activity as»

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If we could but restore or bring about the normal functioning of brain cells and nerve tissues, as well as their own subsidiary chemical activity in such cases, then mental life would come flooding back in fullness and richness.

Using the mouse as an experimental model, LMU neurobiologist PD Dr. Conny Kopp - Scheinpflug and her research group have now demonstrated that the activity of nerve cells in the auditory system has a direct effect on myelinization — higher levels of activity correlate with the formation of thicker myelin sheaths.

In an electroencephalogram (EEG)-- a recording of the brain's electrical activity — the synchronous rhythm of the nerve cells manifests as a periodic pattern.

As Gerald Hahn, Alejandro F. Bujan and colleagues describe in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, the ability of networks of neurons to resonate can amplify oscillations in the activity of nerve cells, allowing signals to travel much farther than in the absence of resonance.

In the hippocampus, activity patterns of nerve cells associated with a particular experience, such as running a maze, reoccur but at a faster pace on replay.

Lawrence Katz of the Duke University Medical Center and his colleagues discovered that once signals reach the accessory olfactory bulb they are mapped out into distinct patterns of nerve cell activity that vary according to the traits that enable a mouse to identify desirable mates, such as species and sex.

The peripheral nervous system of vertebrate animals includes three kinds of nerve cells: sensory neurons, which transmit impulses from sensory receptor structures to the brain; motor neurons, which innervate the striated, or skeletal, muscles, and autonomic neurons, which regulate the functional activity of the circulatory system, the organs, the glands and the smooth muscles (such as those of the intestine).

Its activity as an electrolyte — helping to maintain fluid and mineral balance in and around cells — is vital to nerve transmission, muscle contraction and heart function.