Sentences with phrase «nervous system controls»

The award provides $ 1.5 million for a 5 - year project during which Azim will explore how the nervous system controls dexterous movements.

However, despite several previous studies, the precise mechanisms by which the nervous system controls IOP remain unclear.

Given that the nervous system controls other bodily organs, the effects of neurological disorders are often severe and sometimes devastating.

The autonomic nervous system controls involuntary activities in the body, such as the beating of the heart and circulation of blood.

The researchers also recorded improvements in heart rate variability, a measure of how well the nervous system controls heart function.

The nervous system controls body temperature, and like other parts of the baby's body, it may not have fully matured yet for newborns.

The nervous system controls the body's movements, the senses, and the regulation of body functions.

Respiratory muscle dysfunction is recognized in DMD, however a thorough assessment of nervous system control of respiratory muscles is lacking.

Unlike heart muscle, skeletal muscles work because the brain and nervous system control them; as such, it should be referred to as a neuromuscular system, which includes the brain and spinal cord, the muscles, and the nerves that connect them.

And, in fact, one point Dr. Guyenet's mentor, Michael Schwartz, made of interest in his 2006 review in Nature «Central nervous system control of food intake and body weight» was that «food deprivation strongly augments the reward value... reduced food availability seems to exert a global, stimulatory effect on reward perception.»

So, it is a biological control rather than a nervous system control, which is how chemical pesticides work.

Not exact matches

Still, electroceutical therapies may still have many applications in the peripheral nervous system, such as bladder control or appetite suppression, says researcher Jose Carmena, a neuroscientist and electrical engineer at the University of California at Berkeley.

That requires reconnecting them to the plant's control system and testing the entire «nervous system» of the plant.

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

Discovering that you can control the «involuntary» response of the sympathetic nervous system (which regulates skin temperature) by intentionally relaxing, can enhance the awareness, «I'm in charge of me, including my body!»

Volitional control can be established, through biofeedback learning, over processes long believed to be totally subject to the involuntary control of the autonomic nervous system.

It also appears that humanity is not able to control our thought processes to any great degree, and erratic thinking can have a great many different causes and effects... and the various biochemical actions / reactions of our central nervous systems are not exactly «set in stone», so when you have a situation like this one, it is only good sense to call for rationality in what we do and in what others do.

Driving along a familiar road with little traffic, I can hand control over to the «automatic pilot» in my nervous system and think about eternity.

In my case the disease was distinctly what would be classed as nervous, not organic; but from such opportunities as I have had of observing, I have come to the conclusion that the dividing line that has been drawn is an arbitrary one, the nerves controlling the internal activities and the nutrition of the body throughout; and I believe that the central nervous system, by starting and inhibiting local centres, can exercise a vast influence upon disease of any kind, if it can be brought to bear.

Magnesium is a key player in over 300 biochemical reactions and is essential for creating and maintaining healthy bones, energy production, nervous system balance, and blood sugar control.

Yerba Mate is touted as being a safe and effective nervous system stimulant with few side effects and many health benefits such as rich in antioxidants, enhancing your ability to focus, enhancing physical endurance, aiding in digestion, helps control weight, and supporting heart health.

The syndrome effectively breaks down your autonomic nervous system: the system that controls everything that is meant to happen automatically in the body - so your heart beat, digestion, circulation and immune system.

They activate sympathetic nervous system — which helps control most of the body's internal organs — to expend more energy, so the body burns more calories when the same food is eaten with chili peppers.

He looks calm and collected outside the box, took down some decent balls and laid it off nicely on a number of occasions and has reasonable control and touch in the middle third — but then it all goes haywire as soon as he is in the box, like his nervous system is suddenly shutdown and he loses all co-ordination and awareness.

We do not have control over hiccups, as they are partially controlled by the autonomic nervous system, which also controls things like our heartbeat, pupil dilation, and other involuntary bodily functions.

Soon, her nervous system and muscle control will mature and her jerky movements will become more fluid.

The brain develops rapidly throughout these weeks, while the nervous system has developed enough to control some function.

But by the end of the first month, as her nervous system matures and her muscle control improves, these shakes and quivers will give way to much smoother arm and leg movements that look almost as if she's riding a bicycle.

Some autopsy data shows that infants of smokers have signs of established hypoxic - ischemic cellular injury in the brain and the heart which probably occurred in antenatal life, may have been caused by suboptimal placental function and may have been sub-clinical, but if the baby continues to be in a vulnerable environment exposed to post-natal passive smoking, this could affect autonomic nervous system function and lead to poor temperature control, and poor heart rate and respiration control.

The nervous system has developed enough to control some functions.

The central nervous system can direct rhythmic breathing movements and control body temperature.

The nervous system — meaning the brain, the spine and all the nerves that exit the spine to go to the rest of the body — it's your master control system.

So benefits to getting adjusted, we talked about nervous system experts — brain, spinal cord — that controls and coordinates everything that happens in the body.

Chiropractic care targets the health of your nervous system, which controls and coordinates virtually all... Read more

Chiropractic care targets the health of your nervous system, which controls and coordinates virtually all bodily functions.

As in rodents and monkeys fed 18:3 n − 3 - deficient diets (34, 35, 38 — 40), the higher 22:5 n − 6 concentrations resulted in central nervous system total n − 6 plus n − 3 fatty acid concentrations similar to those in the control animals.

The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»

«But the nervous system in both nematode worms and humans is organized into small functional units called neural circuits, where neurons communicate with each other to control a simple outcome, such as behavior.»

Despite more than a hundred years of research on this class of sensory receptors, however, it has been unclear how, why and when the nervous system chooses to independently control spindles.

Integrative biologist Robert Full of the University of California, Berkeley, suspected that some of the insect's balance - preserving reflexes may be too fast to be controlled by its nervous system alone and are also built into its mechanical structure.

Animals rely on this potent, controlled combustion to drive such energy - hungry innovations as muscles, nervous systems and the tools of defence and carnivory — mineralized shells, exoskeletons and teeth.

«We've been seeing growing evidence of the association between Zika and congenital central nervous system malformations, not just microcephaly, since the first cases were picked up,» says Wim Van Bortel, senior expert on vector - borne diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Solna, Sweden.

«Coughing is something regulated and controlled by the nervous system so it's intriguing that our findings point to a role for NMU, which can induce both smooth muscle contraction and inflammation,» said Burkett.

Based on these observations, the scientists concluded that throughout the course of evolution the nervous system also participated in a controlling role for the microbiome, in addition to its sensory and motor tasks.

A natural substance known to activate pain in the central nervous system has been found to have the opposite effect in other parts of the body, potentially paving the way to new methods of pain control.

Embedded in the wall of the gut, the enteric nervous system (ENS) has long been known to control digestion.

«Nerves control the body's bacterial community: Research team proves, for the first time, that there is close cooperation between the nervous system and the microbial population of the body.»

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 15 percent of people from ages 14 - 49 carry HSV - 2, which can hide out for long periods of time in the nervous system.

In the nervous system, exosomes guide the direction of nerve growth, control nerve connection and help regenerate peripheral nerves.

A live beetle with electrodes wired up to its nervous system can made to take off and be steered like a remote - controlled aircraft