Sentences with phrase «nerve impulses»

Because the issue here is in the abnormal firing of nerve impulses from the brain, the cause can be any of the following.

NO is naturally produced in nerve cells throughout the human body where it is used to transmit nerve impulses in a number of different bodily systems and functions.

Without nerve impulses from both the brain and the legs, the stem cells can not work.

The retina is a layer of tissue in the back of the eye that converts light into nerve impulses.

When nerve impulses are not conducted there is no thought, no sensation, no movement.

It works together with vitamin A to help sense light and to send nerve impulses to the brain.

It conducts nerve impulses within the brain, improving memory and learning skills, elevating mood, preventing memory loss in elderly adults, and increasing physical energy.

Over time, the breakdown of the insulation leads to degeneration of the nerves and ultimately also of the muscles that are cut off from nerve impulses as a result.

The resulting damage inhibits nerve impulses, producing symptoms that include difficulty walking, impaired vision, fatigue and pain.

The white matter is responsible for transporting nerve impulses between gray matter cells.

It can tell us something about hormones and nerve impulses recorded on a screen.

Your brain generates nerve impulses to control and regulate your entire body, from your nose to your toes.

This required inserting probes into an upper and lower layer of the cortex to monitor incoming nerve impulses and the types of signals they generated.

Many things can disrupt nerve impulses either to or from your brain.

The main issue in canine seizures, as well as any other type of seizure, is that there is an abnormal firing of nerve impulses originating from the neurons of the brain.

Iron is a mineral that's essential in the brain for generating energy and ensuring the smooth transmission of nerve impulses.

They do not transmit nerve impulses, or transport oxygen, or help remove waste from the body.

This thin layer of tissue at the back of the eye detects light and then converts it into nerve impulses that travel to the brain's vision centers to form images.

The former exerts its action by blocking nerve impulse transmission in the pest which leads to its paralysis and eventual death.

The passage from a stimulated point on the body, for example, up to the ultimate percipient, is more than mere transmission of nerve impulse in Whitehead's schema.

In addition to iron, molasses has quite a bit of calcium, which is important for muscle contraction (including your heart), nerve impulse conduction, and of course healthy bones and teeth.

The glutamate receptor helps nerve impulses move from one neuron to the next.

Another possible way to make nerve impulses travel more slowly involves growing longer axons, so that signals have a greater distance to travel.

Along with potassium, they create a membrane potential, or electrochemical gradient, between cells; the resulting electrical charges carry nerve impulses, contract muscle cells and help regulate your heartbeat.

Next, the team used tetrodotoxin to block nerve impulses in a kitten's eye when it was 6 weeks old, during the critical period of development.

The term potentiation as it relates to strength training is defined as «the increase in the strength of nerve impulses along pathways that have been used previously.»

Physical therapy, massage, electrostimulation, tactile stimulation and movement in space and time all stimulate nerve impulses up toward the brain.

* Myelination is a term in anatomy that is defined as the process of forming a myelin sheath around a nerve to allow nerve impulses to move more quickly.

As an electrolyte, potassium is a positive charged ion that must maintain a certain concentration (about 30 times higher inside than outside your cells) in order to carry out its functions, which includes interacting with sodium to help control nerve impulse transmission, muscle contraction and heart function.

Unlike the human receptors, which respond to odour molecules, the snakes» thermal receptors respond directly to heat, triggering nerve impulses that their brain interprets as an image.

It is used by the brain to produce serotonin, a neurotransmitter that transfers nerve impulses from one cell to another and is responsible for normal sleep.

When acetylcholine is blocked, nerve impulses don't get transmitted.

Compared with, let's say, 30 billion neurons and a million billion connections in the human cortex alone, the most complex brain - based devices presently have less than a million neurons and maybe up to 10 million or so synapses, the space across which nerve impulses pass from one neuron to another.

These potential reparative functions of AST - OPC1 include the production of neurotrophic factors, the stimulation of vascularization, and the induction of remyelination of denuded axons, all of which are critical for survival and regrowth of — and conduction of nerve impulses through — axons at the injury site.

The axon is also known as a nerve fiber, and it functions to transmit nerve impulses away from the nerve cell body to different neurons, muscles and glands.

If they are blocked, nerve fibers begin to sprout in the injured sections of the brain and spinal cord and relay nerve impulses again.

During nerve impulse transmission, your nerve cells release neurotransmitters to communicate with...

Ray Tallis discusses the «insuperable problem» of explaining how intracranial nerve impulses can be «about» extracranial objects, but thinking in these terms rather confuses the issue (9 January, p 28).

It was first discovered in 1883 in Berlin and is classified as a neurotransmitter, which means it helps nerve impulses cross the synapses (gaps) and communicate better.

gamma - Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a neurotransmitter which regulates nerve impulses throughout the body.

Seizures are the result an abnormal nerve impulse boost that comes from the brain, resulting in mild to severe muscular responses.

Some of these are amantadine for pain, buspirone for anxiety, coenzyme Q - 10 for protecting cells from damage, and carnitine for improving nerve impulse transmission.

The macula is densely packed with photoreceptor cells called rods and cones that react to light and send electrical nerve impulses to the optic nerve and into the brain.

This provides an added bonus, as the trace ionic mineral solution has multiple health benefits in and of itself, such as... greater oxygen delivery to your cells, healthy blood pH balance and regulating nerve impulses with magnesium.

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