Sentences with phrase «sent by the brain»

Unattached Gruesomely nicknamed internal decapitation, this kind of injury often kills by severing the spine, impeding signals sent by the brain that tell the lungs to breathe from reaching their destination.

The researchers looked in rats» brains for the genetic instructions needed to make a key «pleasure receptor,» called D2, that allows brain cells to receive signals sent by the brain chemical dopamine — or cocaine.

The device detects and translates nerve signals sent by the brain to the vocal cords when we merely think about speaking a sound.

Ever had that kind of experience before whenever you attempt to do something, but realize that your body does not seem to want to respond to the commands sent by the brain?

Not exact matches

But when you're overworked and stressed your body sends more oxygen to your body and brain by increasing your heart rate.

Our bodies are a precisely arranged set of organs that are run by our incomprehensible brain, sending out the proper hormone or signals at just the right time or when there is a need.

«We're talking about decoding those words, the ones you already decided to share, by sending them to the speech center of your brain.»

Once activated by the capsaicinoids, these receptors send a message to the brain that the person has consumed something hot.

What sent them was the slow realization by parents that Pop Warner football could be the gateway drug that leads their promising, unblemished child to an adulthood with a degenerative brain condition.

We do so by studying breastfeeding stories sent by mothers and the scientific literature on breastfeeding complications that lead to infant brain injury and death.

The conspiracy theorist living inside my brain says we can expect to see more of this type of «journalism», followed by calls on the school officials to DO SOMETHING because IT IS FOR THE CHILDREN»S SAFETY and IF WE LET THE PARENTS SEND LUNCHES TO SCHOOL THEN CHILDREN WILL DIE!!!!!!!! (note the many, many exclamation points — that means this is a REALLY IMPORTANT POINT Y ’ ALL), followed by local school officials implementing policies to BAN CHILDREN FROM EATING FOOD BROUGHT IN FROM «OUTSIDE» and mandate that they eat, instead, the lunch provided by the school.

After one of our calls, Edward sent out links to articles he wrote on Sparkplugging about the experiences of a company called Pick Nick's Brain, a baby sleep consulting site run by a woman named Nicole Johnson.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

Nonetheless, the nervous system still responds by shutting off the thinking and planning part of the brain — the prefrontal cortex — in order to send blood to the body so we can fight or run away.

Pages can be written about the precise way an eye works and how the brain interprets the pictures sent by the eye.

Neurotransmitters in a child's brain control the child's feelings by sending messages back and forth.

The email was sent in the context of a discussion between Lord Mandelson and Mr Draper about a book called The Political Brain by Drew Westen.

It works by picking up signals sent from your brain when you think about saying something

A Boston neuroscientist is developing a device that may someday help the blind by sending images directly to the brain

What we see is not only based on the signals that our eyes send to our brain, but is influenced strongly by the context the visual stimulus is presented in, on our previous knowledge, and expectations.

Found in the sensory nerve cells of vertebrates, TRPM8 typically sends a sensation of cold to the brain when activated by low temperatures.

Refined carbs can make you hungrier by interfering with messages the digestive system sends to the brain to signal it's time to put down the doughnut.

But the real challenge is figuring out how to send that information back to the brain using living residual neural pathways to replace those that have been damaged or destroyed by trauma.

Modafinil also indirectly alters the action of glutamate, the main neurotransmitter used by neurons in the brain to send signals down the line.

But how does the brain interpret and integrate the stimuli sent by our five senses?

«In other words the human brain compensates for receiving increased information from a mobile phone conversation by not sending some visual information to the working memory, leading to a tendency to «look at» but not «see» objects by distracted drivers.

In a small study of healthy twentysomethings the scientists showed they could make neurons more or less excitable by sending weak electrical currents through the brain's motor cortex.

Researchers long believed the brain was ruled by a single clock that kept all its disparate activities in sync, like a pacemaker that sends out a regular pulse — a sort of cerebral Greenwich mean time.

Instead of the brain computing a colour based on the numerical ratio of different colour amounts detected by the photoreceptors, the photoreceptors respond in a particular pattern, which is then sent to the brain.

It measures blood flow to the brain by sending light signals from sensors mounted in a 3 - pound headcap, then producing images of blood oxygen changes — representing brain activity — by recording the absorption of light at different colors.

When activated by inflammatory markers in the gut, it sends a signal to the brain, where immune cells produce proteins such as IL - 6, leading to increased metabolism (and hence decreased levels) of the «happiness hormone» serotonin in the brain.

Nerve blockers (drugs) are one way; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is another — by getting the brain to send new messages back to the body

The most cogent answer is this: Creating transgenic people by sending a retrovirus into healthy brains will never be allowed.

Usually pain is picked up by specialised cells in your body, and impulses are sent through the nervous system to the brain.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Cytokines can reach the brain several ways: directly through the blood - brain barrier or indirectly by binding to nerve fibers elsewhere, which send signals to the brain to produce the inflammation molecules.

The brain controls movement by sending electrical signals to our muscles through nerve cells.

The switch in the brain that sends us off to sleep has been identified by researchers at Oxford University's Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour in a study in fruit flies.

In a major breakthrough, a team led by researchers at the Salk Institute and Harvard Medical School have identified an important neural mechanism in the spinal cord that appears to be capable of sending erroneous pain signals to the brain.

Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices.

They are thought to work by blocking the reabsorption of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain, leaving more of it available to help brain cells send and receive chemical signals, thereby boosting mood.

Normally the brain reacts by sending information from the temporal cortex to the frontal cortex (a center of higher - order thought) and back in a loop.

This implant sends electrical signals to the brain to help curb some symptoms caused by Parkinson's.

BREATHLESS Nerve endings in the lungs send signals — triggered by force - detecting proteins — to the brain and spinal cord that help regulate breathing.

First introduced by researchers in 1950, corollary discharge is a split - second message sent to the brain that allows animals — including rats, crickets, humans and more — to recognize and filter out sensations generated from their own actions.

Her research suggested that T cells can also send signals that activate the brain's resident immune cells, microglia and blood - borne macrophages, telling them to protect the injured neurons from toxins released by the injury.

As I mentioned earlier, when you approach an octopus in the wild, in at least some species the octopus sends out one arm to inspect you — behavior that suggests a kind of deliberateness, an action guided by the brain.

But the brain's skinniest neurons sometimes send out random spikes triggered by ion channel proteins» popping open accidentally.

Even after control by the brain has been lost, the spinal cord continues to send out motor signals, which are translated into movements of the legs and / or wings.

In extreme conditions, pain or numbness is perceived by the brain using signals sent by these peripheral nerves.