Sentences with phrase «nervous system signaling»

Bargmann will split her presentation between her work at CZI and her own research at Rockefeller University in New York, where she studies C. elegans to unravel the mysteries of nervous system signaling and behavior.

Sophisticated neuroimaging machines and brain - computer interfaces detect the electrical activity of neurons, enabling us to decode and even alter the nervous system signals that accompany mental processes.

Studies show that electromagnetic fields from televisions, computers, wireless devices, and even exercise machines can interfere with brain and nervous system signals, disrupting slumber.

Real Restoration: Send your nervous system a signal of safety.

This could be because the main way in which the central nervous system signals the muscle to contract at a faster velocity is through a higher level of rate coding (Pasquet et al. 2006), while the main mechanism for increasing neural drive in response to a different muscle length is a reduced motor unit recruitment threshold (Pasquet et al. 2005).

It's been possible for a while to control bionic limbs with your brain, but there's been something missing: kinesthetic feedback, or the nervous system signals that give your limbs a sense of presence.

Not exact matches

And, perhaps most strikingly, a team at a gaggle of New York research institutions published a paper showing how they'd used hPSCs to cook up — in just days, rather than several months — cortical neurons (critical central nervous system cells) that had normal electrophysiological signaling properties.

Whereas we can posit the presence of receptive consciousness wherever a developed central nervous system is to be found in the animal world, and of organization by signals wherever learning is possible, symbolic organization of consciousness or reflective consciousness depends on the power of symbolization, which is the distinguishing characteristic of man.

In animal studies, too much fibrin in the central nervous system has been associated with breakdown of the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves and allows them to conduct electrical signals properly.

Early stress sends signals to the nervous system to maintain constant vigilance and prepare for a lifetime of trouble.

Just as early stress sends signals to the developing nervous system to maintain constant vigilance and prepare for a lifetime of trouble, early warmth and responsiveness send the opposite message: You're safe.

Just how the caregiver responds to those signals is important for wiring up a nervous system that will be as calm, organized, and integrated as possible; in other words, it's foundational for later growth and development.

When confronted with a fearful scenario, the amygdala receives signals of potential danger (from the sympathetic nervous system) and begins to set off a series of reactions that will help individuals protect themselves.

He and his colleagues discovered many of the key molecules and signaling systems that guide nerve cells to make connections during development of the nervous system.

Animal studies have revealed several ways in which opioids may amplify pain signals in the central nervous system, suggesting targets for drugs that could counter the effect.

This is in direct contrast to its role in the central nervous system, where it triggers very different signals, exciting neurons and so promoting pain.

The slow signal, carried to the brain by so - called C - tactile fibers, part of the peripheral nervous system, reminded the body to protect the injured site until it could heal.

Bohn noted isoquinolinone 2.1 is one example of a new class of «biased» kappa agonists that avoid many central nervous system side effects by preferentially activating a G protein - mediated signaling cascade without involving another system based on β - arrestin protein interactions.

One type — myelin — surrounds the nerve fibers and allows them to carry signals through the nervous system.

Such symptoms are a result of faulty electrical signals in the central nervous system.

«This research adds further significance to the role of p75 as a master regulator for many different signaling pathways that are vital for the nervous system to function normally.»

For all that precision, we don't automatically feel the signals as pain; often the information from nociceptors is parsed by the nervous system along the way.

«One of the big visions of my group is to create these very efficient bidirectional interfaces with the nervous system and couple that with intelligence to really understand the signals of disease and then to be able to treat disease in an intelligent, methodical way,» Muller said.

Electrodes are surgically implanted into or on top of target nerve fibres, ready to sense electrical signals from neural activity or to deliver electric current that mimics the language of the nervous system.

Neurons are specialized cells of the nervous system that communicate using electrical signals, which propagate down long, wire - like projections called axons.

The research team discovered leptin and insulin interact with proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the brain's hypothalamus, causing them to send signals through the nervous system promoting the conversion of white fat into brown fat.

The study, published in the journal PLOS Genetics, focuses on the large, intracellular signaling protein RPM - 1 that is expressed in the nervous system.

With the Human Brain Project, researchers will use supercomputers to reproduce how brains form — basically, growing them in an virtual vat — then seeing how they respond to input signals from simulated senses and nervous system.

They are neurotoxins: They poison the nervous system of both insects and humans by disabling an enzyme called cholinesterase that helps regulate signals between nerve cells.

The Hippo signaling pathway, which is highly conserved up to humans, was known to play a critical role in organ size determination, like, for example, in the liver, but has not been demonstrated to influence neural stem cells in the central nervous system.

Nerve cells, for example, form long extensions that are attracted to signals from other cells in order to produce the network that forms the nervous system; similarly, scavenger cells recognise the scent of harmful germs in order that they can pursue and destroy them.

Biologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now discovered that the phases of quiescence in the Drosophila fruit fly central nervous system are controlled by the Hippo signaling pathway.

Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables: they have thick electrical insulation so that they can quickly relay stimuli from the body and signals from the brain to a toe, for example.

When a signal passes between two synapses it takes 1 - 10 milliseconds, and we are now very close to the nervous system's own speed,» says Magnus Berggren, professor of organic electronics and director of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

Certain substances, such as the neurotransmitter GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid), are important signal substances throughout the central nervous system.

Stylized representation of a newly - discovered signaling pathway active after spinal cord injury, which sees the injured central nervous system use adrenal hormone production to potentially disrupt the immune system in a way that lead to severe infections.

In some neurodegenerative diseases, the myelin sheaths of axons in the peripheral nervous system degrade, meaning they can no longer relay signals and commands efficiently.

The retina sits at the back of the human eye, and contains protein cells that convert light into electrical signals that travel through the nervous system, triggering a response from the brain, ultimately building a picture of the scene being viewed.

The human nervous system is made up of over 100 trillion synapses, structures that allow neurons to pass electrical and chemical signals to one another.

Signals from the sensors also make the brain dampen the nervous system, leaving you less sensitive to pain.

Now, one group reports in ACS Nano that they have developed an artificial synapse capable of simulating a fundamental function of our nervous system — the release of inhibitory and stimulatory signals from the same «pre-synaptic» terminal.

Although traveling bursts of voltage can carry signals across the brain quickly, those electrical spikes may not be the only — or even the main — way that information is carried in nervous systems.

The paper, to be published Dec. 14 in the journal Nature Communications, traces complex biochemical signals leading to peripheral nervous system dysfunction found in people with Down syndrome.

«We still have a lot of work to do to really understand how signals from the nervous system trigger mouth opening,» she said.

The peripheral nervous system carries electrical signals from the brain to the rest of the body.

He and his collaborators were able to show, for example, that during swimming, motor signals move down the body through muscle cells themselves as well as through nerve connections, by selectively blocking sections of its musculature and nervous system.

The scientists have used supporting cells of the central nervous system, glial cells, to regenerate healthy, functional neurons, which are critical for transmitting signals in the brain.

However, Firestein adds that more work is needed to determine whether placebos prompt the central nervous system to dampen pain via p38 MAP kinase or some other signal.

Many disorders, such blindness to paralysis, come down to a break in the flow of signals through our nervous system.

Although other 5 - HT receptors may exist in the ganglion, 5 - HT3 is the only ionotropic 5 - HT receptor and is normally involved in excitatory signaling in the nervous system (Galligan et al., 2000; Galligan, 2002).