Sentences with phrase «put electrodes»

If you're an older applicant, or you're applying for a large amount of life insurance coverage, you may also have to undergo an electrocardiogram, or EKG, where the technician will put electrodes on your skin to measure your heart's electrical activity.

Dave Asprey: It comes down to 18 bucks a session which is why I like that one because you can put the electrodes on yourself, you just stick on here, one here, some clips on your ears and then you use it.

There's that, and I put electrodes on my arm, and I run the same kind of currents, but heavier, over my body.

The researchers then put electrodes on the heads of the volunteers and had them go to sleep.

This is bad news, because the reason we put electrodes in the brain is to record the electrical activity of those neurons.

The calls continued as you put electrodes into the medial thalamus and the basal ganglia, areas seen as part of an anxiety system by fear researchers.

Engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago put electrodes on Vawter's thigh to detect the contractions and used a computer chip to translate them into commands for his motorized prosthetic.

For instance, Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University and his colleagues put electrodes in the brains of monkeys to link them to a robot arm.

Duchenne could only put electrodes on the skin of his subjects; Waller and her colleagues today can insert fine needles into the muscles themselves.

When neuroscientists put electrodes into the periaqueductal gray region of rat brains and stimulated the neurons there, the creatures immediately started to run and jump uncontrollably.

He might even put some electrodes to my brain and register electrical impulses, say in some part of the cortex.

My first experiment was taking a hawk moth [and] putting an electrode in its brain neuron that looked for left and right motion.

Put the electrode in the water and add voltage.

«If you increased activity in the area exogenously, if I put an electrode in there and stimulated, then you would break off from the routine, you would become more exploratory,» Platt said.

As an epilepsy surgeon, Ojemann regularly puts electrodes right on the surface of the human brain.

Not exact matches

The process involves putting a flexible tube in a patient's nose or mouth, and using a heatable electrode array to help decrease the amount of excess muscle tissue restricting air flow.

Nicknamed the NEBA (its full name is the Neuropsychiatric Interpretive Electroencephalograph Assessment Aid), the device looks like a small cap that gets affixed to a child's head, not altogether unlike the electrodes put on your chest during a trip to the doctor's office.

It may also be possible to vary the voltage applied to the electrodes, putting the energetic squeeze on cells to the point at which they are just doing the absolute minimum to stay alive.

If soldiers aren't injured, they're probably not going to want electrodes put into their heads.

«Along the length of a tine, I can put a group of electrodes here and a group of electrodes there, so if we plant to a certain depth, it's going to be near the neurons I want to record from.»

They implanted the rats with electrodes that could record from thousands of MEC neurons, then put the rodents on a moveable treadmill, «like a Flintstone's car,» Moser says.

Current technology focuses on managing these dendrites by putting up a mechanically strong barrier, normally a ceramic separator, between the negative and the positive electrodes to restrict the movement of the dendrite.

«When this chip is put into the eye under the retina, its solar cells and the electrodes come into contact with the poorly functioning light - sensing cells,» says Alan Chow.

«Here you literally just put an insert in, pipette the cells through the top of the insert, and it deposits them with precision onto specific regions on the electrode array.

With hair - thin electrodes, it is now possible to put a pump on the side of them and deliver drugs to the site when there is aberrant activity, quiet it down.

Ortigue and Bianchi - Demicheli put the improved EEG to the test by placing a set of 128 electrodes on a group of healthy volunteers and showing them pictures of people in swimsuits.

The surgeon also puts a battery pack and a sensor in the chest and connects them to the electrode with a wire lead.

Scientists have tried to improve lithium - sulfur batteries by putting lithium metal on one electrode and sulfur on the other.

Other methods of interfacing with the brain via electrodes include those put on the scalp for electroencephalography (EEG) and ones placed under the skull on the brain's surface, known as electrocorticography (ECoG).

But, think about it, how are you supposed to put a bendy electrode into a squishy brain?

As the subjects were doing the exercises, researchers measured their muscle activity using electrodes that detect the electrical impulses sent to the muscle (which is, put simply, a way to measure how hard a muscle is working).

My wife will probably kill me, but given that I mentioned I do my exercise with electrical stimulation, it is conceivably possible that you could put the negative electrodes on one person, and the positive electrodes on another person.

Back in the day, when I tried them, they were 1.1 mm gap, and and even adjusting the ground electrode, the misfired immediately... and had to put the NGK's back in... at that time, I think it was PFR6Q (which was before VW started using the PFR7S8EG).

The moment of truth came in a windowless basement laboratory on January 23, 1997, at around 2 or 3 a.m. «JD and I put a microcapsule in between two copper electrodes on a slide, put it under a microscope, and for the first time, against conventional wisdom, proved that you could move a particle inside a microcapsule with an external electric field,» Comiskey wrote.

The plastic PET substrate, high molecular liquid crystal material, nano pigment absorption layer material, and silver electrode are all recyclable and can be put to use again once the e-paper has reached the maximum number of re-writes allowed on it.

Thanks Wayne, I was looking for the accuracy of the early glass electrodes... If we put the ancient electrodes and procedures at 0.1 units (best result) and the pH drop at a fixed place in the oceans with a growth of 40 % CO2 is not more than 0.1 pH units over 100 years, what then is the value of the historical data, taken at a lot of different places in different seasons?

The density of the battery also increased the chances of severe failure, but additional research was needed to pinpoint the cause of the deformed corners putting stress in the negative electrodes.