Sentences with phrase «signal from the brain»

Thyroid hormone receives signals from the brain and coordinates cells to change their functions, depending on what else is going on in your body.

A spinal cord injury occurs when the cells inside a person's spinal cord are damaged, disrupting the relay of signals from the brain to the rest of the body.

The primary function of the spinal cord is to transmit signals from the brain to other parts of the body.

This tissue can then grow and respond to chemical signals from the brain to produce the hormones that cause the heat cycle.

Since the 1970s, scientists have tried to use signals from the brain to help change behaviour.

Human and animal movements generate slight neural signals from their brain cells.

Once connected, those muscles contract in response to signals from the brain meant for the absent limbs.

«Maybe there is a way to use one drug to alter the mitochondrial signal and another drug to alter the communication signal from the brain,» he said.

The peripheral nervous system carries electrical signals from the brain to the rest of the body.

When the thyroid is working correctly it receives signals from the brain to turn iodine from foods into hormones and sends those hormones throughout your body to keep it functioning smoothly.

Researchers measured electrical signals from the brain in human subjects before and after a Botox treatment.

In Kennedy's electrode design, the three gold wires that conduct signals from the brain terminate inside the tiny, cone - shaped tip of a glass micropipette.

Sensory tracts carry signals from the brain about temperature, pressure, pain and limb positions.

«The microchip technology also allows us to extract signals from the brain in order to reverse - engineer brain circuitry and decode the information that is in the subject's mind.

In the study, functional MRI, or fMRI, scans were done on volunteers while they performed hand - grip exercises, which raise blood pressure and heart rate through signals from the brain.

«What we are doing is kind of reversing the process a step at a time by opening up this box and taking signals from the brain and with minimal translation, putting them back in another person's brain,» he said.

Two types of nerves transmit signals between the body and the brain: efferent nerves, which relay signals from the brain to the body, and afferent nerves, which send signals from the body to the brain.

After years of paralysis, Ian Burkhart controls his hand with new technology that reads signals from his brain and delivers them to a sleevelike device on his arm.

«What that showed is when there is an unexpected event, the stopping signal from the brain is increased,» Wessel says.

This is due to the degeneration of the spinal pathways that carry nerve signals from the brain to the different parts of the body and vice versa, resulting in loss of mobility and sensitivity underneath the injured area.

Standard neural prosthetics ferry signals from the brain's motion control center, the motor cortex, to a cable connected to a computer controlling the limb.

The human body is a complex electrical network: Nerve cells shuttle signals from the brain, and pulses in the heart cause its muscle cells to expand and contract.

The rats saw a four-fold increase in nerve fibres throughout their brain and spine, with the new fibres bypassing the original injury and allowing signals from the brain to reach the spine.

«There are several elements that must go hand in hand for us to be able to record neuronal signals from the brain with decisive results.

What was especially «exciting» about this finding, he says, is that these variations were near a neural highway that previous studies have shown helps regulate life span in worms and flies, and that stopping chemical signals from this brain pathway extends the life span of mice.

The CPG, Pfaff says, is where relatively simple signals from the brain — to walk forward, or move your hand off a hot stove — are translated into more complex instructions for motor neurons to control muscles.

I am sitting in a darkened, closet - size lab at Tufts University, my scalp covered by a blue cloth cap studded with electrodes that detect electric signals from my brain.

«Maybe there is a way to use one drug to alter the mitochondrial signal and another drug to alter the communciation signal from the brain,» he said.

Masmanidis is developing silicon - based electrodes that can record electrical signals from the brain while the miniscope records imaging data.

But there are times when people may have more water than is safe, say the authors, and may disregard signals from their brains to stop drinking.

Everything in your body, from the tissue that supports your skeleton to the neurons that fire signals from your brain to your feet run on the energy that's created by the food we eat, and I personally would prefer to have body tissue made from real, whole foods than tissue constantly bombarded by chemical byproducts of food processing from something that came out of a box and went through a factory full of chemicals and processes I'd never even see or hear about.

Our strength is determined by the speed of CNS signal from brain to body's nerve endings.

In a normal menstrual cycle, every 26 to 28 days the ovaries, which hold a woman's eggs, receive a hormonal signal from the brain that it's time to get some eggs ready to be fertilized.

The Hypothalamic - Pituitary - Adrenal (HPA) axis is a feedback loop by which signals from the brain trigger the release of hormones, such as cortisol, needed to respond to stress.

The key attribute here for enhancing testosterone release signaling from your brain, is not something physically demanding like wrestling, but rather the act of competing, especially when you compete and go on to win.

I feel dopamine is crucial for feeling motivated, and also has a nice benefit of staving off hunger while dieting, or needing to focus without being overwhelmed by hunger signals from your brain.

Water may even help to suppress your appetite when you drink it before meals because thirst signals from your brain are often mistaken for hunger pains.

What this suggests is that it's difficult to run «normally» coming off the bike, but elite triathletes have trained long enough to learn how to send different signals from their brain to their muscles in order to reproduce their normal stride.

Also, an imbalanced gut can interfere with your body's ability to receive signals from your brain indicating to produce more (or less) of certain hormones.

Ovulation is a sign that we are getting proper signalling from our brain and that we have good healthy estrogen and progesterone levels.

The spinal cord is responsible for transmitting signals from your brain throughout your body, and any disruption to that signal can cause serious and potentially irreparable damage to the rest of your body, depending on the site of the injury.

Also known as «wetware», these brain - computer interfaces would effectively convert the chemical and electrical signals from the brain into machine readable data, and vice versa.

After admission to the Neurology / Neurosurgery Service and an examination by Dr. Amanda Taylor, Bailey was diagnosed with Degenerative Myelopathy (DM), a progressive spinal cord disease in which nerves lose their ability to conduct signals from the brain to the limbs DM leads to a final, heartbreaking state: the inability to walk, and unfortunately, there is no medication or surgery available.

«The microchip technology also allows us to extract signals from the brain in order to reverse - engineer brain circuitry and decode the information that is in the subject's mind,» said Adam Sachs, neurosurgeon and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.

Because the spinal cord is responsible for transmitting signals from the brain to the body, and vice-versa, damage to the spinal cord can have very serious and lasting effects on an individual's health and their ability to function.

V2a interneurons relay signals from the brain to the spinal cord, where they ultimately connect with motor neurons that project out to the arms and legs.

This enteric nervous system is part of the autonomic nervous system which receives signals from the brain and is sometimes thought of as a second brain within your gut.

Researchers used genetically modified mice in which the axons in the corticospinal tract, a bundle of nerves carrying signals from the brain to the spinal cord, were «stained» with fluorescent matter visible under a powerful microscope.