Sentences with phrase «same brain signals»

Not exact matches

Exhausting muscles to increase strength and muscle size is necessary to stress the body to adapt, but the same concept doesn't apply in balance training, the goal of which is to develop sensory - motor processes so that the brain sends signals down to the muscles to maintain balance and body awareness.

Sure enough, when Bullmore's team measured the length of time that two electrical signals from random locations in the brain were «in phase», it was the same at all signal frequencies (PLoS Computational Biology, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pcbi.1000314).

Each design differs slightly in the technical details, but the hurdles are the same: creating an effective device tiny enough to fi t inside the eye, powering that device, and getting signals from the detector to the brain.

Our brains generate the same reward signals when we conquer any challenge, big or small, so I take on smaller challenges outside of work.2 My daily physical workouts are diverse — running, yoga, Pilates, strength training — and I progress by focusing on today's form and peak performance.

But when it comes to sending signals toward your brain through your spinal cord, itch and mild pain can go through the same set of spinal cord neurons, researchers report February 22 in Neuron.

«Even though a signal may emanate from [the same region] deep inside the brain, by the time it gets [projected] to the cortex and the surface of the scalp, the signal appears very random.

At the same time, GRP neurons are not the only group of spinal cord neurons that receive and forward pain signals toward the brain, and the brain itself plays a central role in translating signals from peripheral neurons into experienced sensation.

But over the course of four decades, and through dozens of experiments, Edgerton and his colleagues have shown that the spinal cord is smart in much the same way the brain is smart: It can, on its own, detect sensory information and send out signals that control the way we move.

«The idea is that if you can couple those motor signals that are associated with moving the same - sided limb with the actual movements of the hand, new connections will be made in your brain that allow the uninjured areas of your brain to take over control of the paralyzed hand,» Leuthardt said.

Across a range of disorders, deep - brain stimulation works much the same way: A pacemaker - like device in the chest transmits a signal to the implanted electrode via wires that run underneath the scalp.

The researchers also received detailed instructions on how to grapple with a major technical challenge: Electrodes in patients» brains often detect pulses from two or more nearby neurons at the same time, which may show up in the computer as one big signal.

Concurrently, the research team recorded electrical signals from TRN neurons and also tracked the mice's behavior while at the same time inactivating various parts of the brain's neural circuits with a laser beam.

They and additional co-authors at the MGH Cancer Center, the University of North Carolina, Vanderbilt University and Novartis, identified HER3 — part of the same signaling pathway that includes HER2 — as a possible contributor to anti-HER2 / PI3K resistance in breast cancer brain metastases.

With a remote control, Darrel uses the stimulator for up to 45 minutes each day, applying different programs to transmit electrical impulses into his spinal cord that mimic the same signals that would come from the brain.

At the same time, Freeman and others have shown that SARM - dependent signaling pathways also drive axon loss in neurodegenerative conditions including glaucoma, traumatic brain injury and peripheral neuropathy.

Curiously, the team also found the post-stimulus fMRI signal was not consistent, even though the stimulus input to the brain was the same each time.

The team from Kyoto University and ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) Computational Neuroscience Laboratories discovered that brain activity patters can be decoded, or translated, into signal patterns of simulated neurons in the DNN when both are shown the same image.

A second study, to be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows how these brain signals can be used to predict virality of the same news articles around the world.

Some nerve cells send signals far away to other areas of the brain, while other neurons send signals within the same area.

Here, we investigate how chemosensory anxiety signals conveyed by the sweat of humans (N = 49) awaiting an academic examination are processed by the human brain, as compared to chemosensory control signals obtained from the same sweat donors in a sport condition.

Emerging nanoscale implants will play an important role in understanding communication among nerve cells in the brain, while other researchers hope to use the same technology to probe chemical signaling in microbial communities.

«The same area of your brain that controls hunger also controls thirst, so sometimes signals get crossed when you haven't had enough to drink during the day to confuse you into feeling the sensations of «hunger,»» explains Blatner.

In the same way, smelling a familiar, relaxing scent every night moments before we hit the pillow can send a strong and comforting signal to our over-wired, over-stimulated brains to prepare for sleep.

And this will cause the brain to signal the same production of insulin as when you eat sugar.

15 In fact, type 2 diabetes (T2D)-- a condition stemming from broken glucose metabolism and insulin signaling — has been identified as an additional risk factor for developing AD.16, 17 Moreover, the pathological changes that occur in AD in the brain physically resemble those seen in the pancreas and vasculature in T2D.9, 18 Type 2 diabetics who carry ApoE4 alleles are at the greatest risk for AD, with an even more severe risk reserved for those treated with exogenous insulin.19 This suggests that either T2D or related features of the metabolic syndrome bring about AD, or that they are separate consequences of the same underlying cause — and moreover, that insulin is a key factor.

Although adiponectin's signaling pathways are generally thought to be distinct from those of insulin, in this case it acts through the same signaling pathway as insulin in both osteoblasts and in the brain.

Therefore, it's important to pay attention to the size of your portion of food.The same holds true for eating too fast which may also cause you to overeat.Take your time at meals, enjoy every mouthful and give your brain a chance to signal to your stomach that you've eaten enough.

You've done the same thing over and over so many times (in this case constantly clicking on that certain location for the FB app) that every time you think about the act of going on FB, your brain automatically signals your finger to that exact location.

Did you know that the part of the brain that signals hunger is the same part that signals thirst?

This means that, compared to non-PCOS women, our brains do not receive the «I'm full, stop eating» signal from the same amount of leptin.

This small semantic change signals a shift in acknowledging that no two brains are the same, so no two students learn in the same fashion.

The hearing test known as the brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) or brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) detects electrical activity in the cochlea and auditory pathways in the brain in much the same way that an antenna detects radio or TV signals or an EKG detects electrical activity of the heart.

The light field mimics the same signal your brain uses to process visuals.