Sentences with phrase «of brain nerve»

Studies have shown that it increases neuron plasticity — the ability of brain nerve cells to take over some of the activities of brain cells destroyed or damaged by stroke.

Reporting online in Neuron, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a group of proteins that program a common type of brain nerve cell to connect with another type of nerve cell in the brain.

These conditions are distinguished by the different types of brain nerve cells that are first affected and by the symptoms that first appear.

We build most of our brain nerve architecture for life by age 6.

Not exact matches

They send a high level of electrical impulses from peripheral nerve endings to the brain, which could produce an anti-depressant effect.

(I saw one of these models — a brain with a cancerous lesion snaked precariously around a cranial nerve — being printed, cell layer by cell layer.)

«The human brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and right, connected by a bundle of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum.

For one, it would give them three specific biological markers to hone in on: The buildup of beta amyloid and tau proteins, which cause brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, and brain nerve cell death.

Unlike some of the promising treatments that have failed in 2017 that deal with the so - called «amyloid hypothesis» (the treatments target amyloid beta deposits in the brain that accumulate in people with Alzheimer's disease), approaches that try to prevent nerve cells from dying wouldn't have any impact on that buildup.

The center of the cord is gray matter — essentially an extension of the brain, like a tail — that is sheathed in fibrous white matter, with long, thin nerve fibers called axons shooting out at intervals to wire every part of the body.

Confusingly, there is some crossing of nerves between the body and the brain, which means it's actually the left side of the brain that has more control over the right side of the body and vice versa.

Specifically, it appears that exercise stimulates neurons (nerve cells) to grow in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory.

As Jesus slowly sags down with the weight of His body on the nails through His wrists, excruciating, fiery pain shoots along the most sensitive nerve endings in the body — called the median nerves — and travels along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

A day later, I had an MRI scan of my brain, and two days after that I was informed that I had several lesions on an optic nerve behind my right eye which required IV steroid treatment.

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different in size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.

«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge.

Their brain is divided in regions with different coordinated functions, and it is composed of several hundred thousands of nerve cells (the honey bee has about 800,000).

Only a special systemic order of atoms in certain molecules of different types of brain cells, steady activity of these cells and excitations coming from sensoric nerves and running to associative and motoric centers are the basis of the peculiarity of brain function.

These nerve impulses activate selected cells in this part of the brain.

«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fe - tal brain develops during the intraut - erine period in the male direction through a direct action of tes - tosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hor - mone surge.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different In size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.15

It's simply a group of nerves in our brains who's job it is to filter information.

The standard explanation recounts the existence of a material object, its reflection of light waves of a certain length, the transference of these light waves from the object to the perceptual organs of the observer (in this case, the eyes), the interaction of the light waves with the rods and cones of the retina, the transference of nerve impulses along the relevant nerves to the brain, and, finally, the production of the sensation of sight.

Indeed, he admits that some points along the causal route of inheritance are vividly felt (e.g., the hand when holding the stone), while others fade to the fringes of consciousness (e.g., the nerves between the hand and the brain).

The late Harold G. Wolff, one of our most distinguished neurologists, pointed out that the function of nerve cells was not confined to the function of the brain.

Did it started off as a mass of white ball, then it slowly started developing nerves, retina, a cornea, and essentially a complex apparatus for capturing light and transmitting it via nerve cells to the brain?

How comes it that, with different nerve - fibres of touch and sight, we distinguish different space - points, but with one fibre distinguish nothing, although the different fibres are connected in the brain just as much as the parts are in the single fibre?

The action of the brain is also a complex thing made up of elements, a stream of nerve - messages.

Similarly we see the impressions reaching the brain by the intermediation of the nerves; they then are isolated and without coherence.

The events in the nerves leading to the brain succeeded the events in the eye and were in turn followed by the events in the brain and finally by the impact upon the conscious human occasion of experience.

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.

This nerve, discovered within the last few years, sits at the front of our brain, in front of the olfactory nerve, and is very small and fragile.

For example, the burning of the fire and the passage of heat from it through intervening space is the cause of the body, its nerves and its brain, functioning in certain ways.

So at day 14, the number of nerve and brain cells in the human embryo is zero, and it has less complexity than the simplest microscopic worm and less feeling or intelligence than a parasite in dirty drinking water.

A mechanistic physiologist analyses my sitting at my word processor in terms of light waves hitting my retina from the keyboard and the screen which then set in train chemical and electrical processes in my nerves and brain.

Eicosonoids from Omega - 3's are hormone - like compounds that help regulate blood pressure, blood clotting, aid in growth and development of cells, needed for vision and brain development, and maturation of nerves.

Studies show that a Ketogenic Diet can increase the production of brain derived neurotropic factor (BDNF), an anti-inflammatory protein that promotes the growth of nerves.1

It is considered an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which means it regulates brain and nerve cell activity by inhibiting the number of neurons firing in the brain.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a bite of something nourishing on a fast or cleanse — preferably something with fat in it to calm the nerves and tell your brain that you're not starving.

The consumed caffeine caused dopamine, a carrier of messages between nerve cells in the brain, to flood the brain's pleasure center resulting in decreased pain sensitivity, a huge benefit for chronic pain suffers.

One theory is that this stimulation depletes the nerves of Substance P, a neuropeptide that transmits pain signals to the brain, which then reduces pain and irritation in a treated area.

It Is a great source of saturated fat which helps with cardiovascular health, weight loss, absorption of calcium, liver health, nerve signaling (which helps with metabolism and insulin release), supports the immune system, brain and lungs!

Without those nerve endings and the feedback to the brain, circumcised men suffer premature ejaculation (the # 1 sexual complaint of circumcised American men) and later in life sexual dysfunction and impotence.

Incredible Brain Development At birth a baby's brain contains 100 billion nerve cells (or neurons), all she will ever have, but not the programming of those cBrain Development At birth a baby's brain contains 100 billion nerve cells (or neurons), all she will ever have, but not the programming of those cbrain contains 100 billion nerve cells (or neurons), all she will ever have, but not the programming of those cells.

Dr. Marianne Neifert, a pediatrician and author of «Great Expectations: The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding,» explains that nipple incisions for implants should be avoided if breastfeeding is important to the patient [because] all the milk ducts that drain the different lobes or sections of the breast kind of convene there [and] it's possible to accidentally cut milk ducts or the nerve that sends the signal to your brain to release more hormones that then helps you to produce more milk.»

This damages some of the nerve cells in the brain, and affects my dad's memory, decision - making and personality.

Although they are mainly just growing bigger and stronger now, there are some key elements of their development going on as the nerves in their brain which control the senses are still forming, eventually enabling them to smell, see, hear, taste and touch.

The bones of the middle ear and the nerve endings from the brain are developing so that your baby will hear sounds such as your heartbeat and blood moving through the umbilical cord.