Sentences with phrase «small electrical currents in»
This so - called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) triggers the flow of small electrical currents in neural circuits beneath the coils.
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Peter Brown at University College London used electrodes to generate a small electrical current in the brains of 14 healthy volunteers.
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Catania placed his arm in a tank with a 40 - centimeter - long electric eel (relatively small as eels go) and determined, in amperes, the electrical current that flowed into him when the eel struck.
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.
In the tests, the amount of electrical power generated is small: Voltages are about 0.2 volts, and currents about 2 milliamps, Nicolau says.
Finally, Yoichi Ando and colleagues at the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry in Tokyo, Japan, report that in nonsuperconducting LSCO and YBCO, the electrical resistance is smaller for current flowing in the direction in which the stripes are thought to run.
Nanopores are miniscule holes (often as small as a few billionths of a meter) that measure a change in electrical current as molecules pass through them.
When two silver electrodes are placed in contact with the skin of the body, and a small current is passed between the electrodes, the body itself completes the electrical circuit.
Cause: Heat generated from electrical current within the Daytime Running Lamp (DLR) Module could melt the housing and create a small fire in the dash.
When the plastic bends, the wires bend too, and this motion creates an electrical potential in the wires that drives current through the external circuit... They also harvested energy from a hamster wearing a small jacket affixed to the device as the rodent ran on an exercise wheel and scratched itself.
Scientists at IBM Research in California, gave a demo of reading and writing a bit of information on the smallest unit; the atom, with the help of electrical current.