Sentences with phrase «of the central nervous system of»

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Experiments so far with neural dust motes have only involved the peripheral nervous system, which serves the limbs and organs, and not the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

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Alkermes plc is a fully integrated, global biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases.

The company runs clinical studies on behalf of its multinational pharma clients in oncology, respiratory / infectious disease and central nervous system disorders.

Analysts point to three main therapeutic areas — cancer, central nervous system disorders (such as Alzheimer's, depression and pain), and cardiovascular disease — as core strengths of Canada's biopharmaceutical research industry.

One day, Reynolds says, a version of InVivo's implant, packed with stem cells or hormones, might help the six million Americans who are chronically paralyzed from SCI and other central nervous system disorders improve their level of functioning.

His goal is wildly ambitious — in large part because of how little is really understood about the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord, and its healing mechanisms.

For example, MethylGene Inc. (TSX: MYG) is focusing on cancer treatment, biOasis Technologies Inc. (TSXV: BTI) is pursuing research on disorders of the central nervous system, and Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX: DND) is working on a treatment for acne - related conditions.

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.

When it comes to medical treatment, the brain and central nervous system remain the darkest, most forbidding frontiers in the human body — and yet our knowledge of how the brain and mind actually work seems to be growing by leaps each year.

Hear the story behind Backstage Capital Headliner Novoron Bioscience, a San Diego - based biotech company developing novel therapeutic approaches to address disorders of the central nervous system.

These symptoms included respiratory failure, severe irritation of mucous membranes and disruption to the central nervous system.

Akorn said in its March earnings call it expects a modest decline in annual sales in 2017, largely because of pricing erosion and increased competition for a key drug, ephedrine, a central nervous system stimulant.

The disease is characterized by the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) leading to a neurodegenerative disorder that is chronically debilitating and life - threatening, where the most affected tissues are the myelin in the central nervous system (CNS) and the adrenal cortex.

Genervon is on the lookout for pharma partners to help advance its GM6 drug, which takes aim at a range of deadly diseases hitting the central nervous system

Its drug development expertise is being applied primarily to the fields of pain management, central nervous system disorders, acute organ injury and metabolic diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease / nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

The clinical - stage biopharmaceutical company committed to developing novel medicines to transform the lives of patients with life - altering central nervous system (CNS) disorders, SAGE Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SAGE) seem to be poised for a price surge as per its latest charts.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals is small - cap biotech that focused on diseases of the central nervous system.

This is most evident of all in the development of the central nervous system and the brain out of the notochord of more primitive creatures.

Also the central nervous system forms in the third week of pregnancy.

It needs to be stated first that human beings are highly complex psycho - physical organisms with literally thousands of energy events interacting with each other and with and under the dominance of an «organizing center of experience» (the brain), also present in animals with central nervous systems.

What is the relation of mind to matter when the matter is in our central nervous system?

Whitehead's system is able to encompass the results, however: while the actual occasions constituting the central nervous system of bees are certainly of a lower degree of complexity than that of mammals, a bee brain contains thousands of interactive neurons, so that there is no a priori reason why the dominant occasion of the bee may not be capable of complex experiences in situations relevant to the bees» survival.

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.

It is simply registered and transmitted, thereby triggering an automatic response predetermined by the structure of the central nervous system.

In general it seems that we can be sure there are souls only where there are central nervous systems providing sufficient stimulus in some locus in an animal body for a unified experience to emerge far more complex than that of individual molecules or cells.

If this premise produces in the theist a noticeable attitude change, perhaps it's because you're getting close to the central nervous system of his god - belief.

Animal life introduces the central nervous system and a much higher capacity for richness of experience.

My response to the first question is: around the fourteenth week of pregnancy, when a central nervous system, and hence sentiency, develops.

A single human egg cell is alive, but it has no experiences like those of an adult, or a child, or even of an animal with a central nervous system.

Even in more highly developed organisms, it may be that most of the connection between successive dominant occasions is mediated by the central nervous system.

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.

Here Jacques Monod (1971) would appear to agree with Popper in that he calls the problem of the human central nervous system «the second frontier,» comparing its difficulty with the «first frontier,» the problem of the origin of life itself.

Now, in some contexts it is convenient to speak of the whole body as the percipient event (the event in nature [PNK 70] embodying the perceptual act); in others, as only some minute event in the central nervous system.

Modern electronics, he contended, is an extension of the central nervous system.

More importantly, though, my extended experience, as formalized in scientific laws, tells me that in all those cases in which I personally experience, or believe lam observing, self - determining activity, such activity is the product of a central nervous system.

Thus, I conclude, and I think justly, that entities without central nervous systems do not possess any power of self - determination of the type Griffin envisions.

Mental activity, presence - to - self, increases ever so slowly along the evolutionary axis of increasing physical complexity — in particular of the central nervous system — until, voila, we are thinking subjects.

Since Hartshorne begins with human experience, the first cosmological question that arises for him does not have to do with atoms and molecules but with the relation of human experience to the body, especially to the central nervous system and the brain.

At different times Hartshorne has written of this as the body as a whole, the central nervous system, and the brain.

Yet, for process thinkers, an important value, the virtue of creativity, is the zest for novelty and adventure — characteristics of life itself, particularly in the more complex forms, such as animals with central nervous systems.

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.

This seems to be associated with the development of the central nervous system.

His comments on «scientific» views of consciousness are also timely because populist evolutionary biologists and «physicalist» philosophers of mind often portray the conscious mind, indeed the «self», as nothing other than the sum total of the chemical and biological parts of the brain and central nervous system.

Higher animals all seem to contain at least one such society, called a «living person,» present in the body in addition to the cells and molecules of the central nervous system, even though dependent upon them.

As Birch notes, what is required physiologically for consciousness to emerge is a specialization of cells leading to a central nervous system with sense organs oriented to messages from the external world.

The basic structure that makes these dominant occasions possible emerged with the development of the central nervous system in animals, and where this structure is present, it is reasonable, as Thorpe does, to posit consciousness as present to some degree.

He claims, for example, that all media are extensions of our central nervous system, extensions of consciousness, rather like the psychodelic drugs.

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.

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.