Sentences with phrase «of mild electric shocks»

When they were «caught,» they were given a series of mild electric shocks.

Researchers placed the women in a functional MRI machine to monitor their brain activity while subjected to the threat of a mild electric shock.

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The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

Instead of the ring of a single bell, rats were exposed to two distinctly different sounds, one of which was paired with a mild electric shock, while the other was not.

While subjects were in the scanner, the researchers administered a series of electric shocks to their wrists, each time warning them (by showing them either a blue or a red cue on a screen) whether the next shock would be mild or intense.

Mice bred to have a malfunctioning form of CREB, Silva's study demonstrated, did not remember from one day to the next that they had already been taught to navigate a water maze or that they had previously been placed in a special cage where they received a mild electric shock.

[The stimulation] didn't hurt — more like a mild tingle or a static electric shock right on the top of my head.

In one group of mice, he and his colleagues dosed their mothers with a synthetic compound that simulates a mild viral infection during late pregnancy; when their offspring hit early puberty at about 6 weeks of age, the young mice were exposed to unpredictable stress, such as being restrained, deprived of water, or given electric foot shocks.

Neurologist Steven Laureys of the University of Liège in Belgium, who would later collaborate with Schiff and Giacino, showed that same year, 2002, that in vegetative patients, mild electric shocks activated basic sense - perception regions but not the higher - level information processing networks (pdf) that the minimally conscious patients could access.

When that didn't work, the researchers sometimes resorted to mild electric shock, using a nine - volt battery to make the venom glands contract and prompt the release of a droplet or two.

Assays of spontaneous cage activity were used as surrogate measures of exercise capacity and were chosen to avoid stresses associated with forced exercise (i.e., mild electric shocks).

They herded each mouse into a special cage and delivered a mild electric shock to its foot, leading the mouse to form a fearful memory of the cage.

While most electronic fences work by delivering a mild electric shock, some emit ultrasound or a combination of shock and ultrasound that alerts the dog as he approaches the boundary.