Sentences with phrase «neural signals sent»

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As the baby suckles at the breast neural signals are sent to the hypothalamus which mediates the level and rhythm of secretion of the GnRH hormone.

As she moved the joystick, her neural signals were picked up by the wires and sent to a computer in the next room.

Then, instead of sending neural signals from the animal's brain to a robot, he shunts them back into the muscles of the paralyzed arm, thereby bypassing the spinal cord.

«We will look at how a code of neural signals is sent to the brain, to see if it is in fact faster than with other animals and whether it has other advantages,» says Marshall.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

In a major breakthrough, a team led by researchers at the Salk Institute and Harvard Medical School have identified an important neural mechanism in the spinal cord that appears to be capable of sending erroneous pain signals to the brain.

In contrast, the Stanford team's neural structures not only self - assembled as cortexlike tissue, the neurons also sent signals to one another in coordinated patterns — just as they would in a brain.

While this was happening, the researchers measured the activity in two parts of the monkeys» brains, the parietal lobe and the frontal lobe, which is the next place neural signals are sent.

Located deep inside the brain the thalamus acts as a relay station sending neural signals from the body to the cortex.

Designed to be extremely power - efficient, NTU's patented smart chip will analyse and decode the thousands of signals from the neural implants in the brain, before compressing the results and sending it wirelessly to a small external receiver.

The nerve actually sends signals to the brain, and the brain releases neural hormones such as beta - Endorphins.

When the central nervous system sends a signal (called neural drive) down the efferent nerves to the neuromuscular junction, this causes an action potential to propagate along the muscle fiber, leading to depolarization.

They're helpful short circuits in our neural system, sending signals to the spinal cord, whence action signals are relayed back in what's known... [more]

They're helpful short circuits in our neural system, sending signals to the spinal cord, whence action signals are relayed back in what's known as the reflex arc, bypassing the time - consuming trek up to the brain and back down again.