Sentences with phrase «time brain signal»

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Every time their brain signals settled into the slow - wave pattern characteristic of deep, dreamless sleep, the researchers sent a series of beeps through the headphones, gradually getting louder, until the participants» slow - wave patterns dissipated and they entered shallower sleep.

Not exact matches

If you work from home, you miss this benefit, so fake it by creating some sort of simple morning ritual that you can do before you get down to business, to signal to your brain it's time to get serious.

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.

When the lights go down and the room darkens, this signals to the brain that it's time for rest.

Its sound will come to signal the brain that it is «time for sleep,» much like a pre-bedtime meditation session... but easier.

These aren't totally redundant and can be very useful sleep cues if used during a bed time routine instead of the main light - the lower light level helps to signal baby's brain that it is time for bed.

Even the teeny - tiniest amount of light creeping around through the window can signal to your child's brain that it's morning and sleep time is over.

A consistent bedtime or a bedtime ritual can signal your brain that it is time for sleep.

Every time you do it, the nerves in your breasts send a signal to your brain to release prolactin, the hormone that's behind milk production.

The EEG signal can be processed quickly, allowing fast response times, and the instrument is cheaper and more portable than brain - scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron - emission tomography.

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.

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).

Every time the brain sends the eyes a signal to twitch, it sends a copy, or corollary signal, to another location in the brain, sort of like the way your e-mail client sends copies of your e-mails to their own folder, Wurtz explains.

«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

One clinical trial involves the drug CGF166, a one - time gene therapy, which, if proven successful in humans, could regenerate new hair cells within the cochlea that can signal the part of the brain that processes sound.

Once they are in place, Grunwald will record brain signals in real time during seizures and use the information to try to identify the epileptogenic tissue.

The results reveal that the brain does not require multiple signals to build a picture body ownership, as this is the first time the illusion has been created using sensory inputs from the muscle alone.

It describes how the brain constructs a mental depiction of the surface using sensory signals from two fingers as they explore a surface over time and space.

«This is the first time [stimulated movement has] been linked to signals recorded from within the brain,» says biomedical engineer Chad Bouton, one of the study's authors and vice president of advanced engineering and technology at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.

Using tissue - like mesh electronics, by comparison, researchers may be able to read signals from specific neurons over time, potentially allowing for the development of improved brain - machine interfaces for prosthetics.

«The eye can actually detect single photons, but the signals that light sends to the brain are suppressed unless there are about seven — otherwise you would see flashes of light all the time — even in complete darkness,» explains quantum physicist Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Over time, «significant and persistent» MRI abnormalities (called T1 - weighted signal hyperintensities) developed in the brains of rats receiving the linear GBCA, gadodiamide.

In a study being published in the journal Neuron, researchers show that the signal molecule TGF - beta acts as a time signal that regulates the nerve stem cells» potential at different stages of the brain's development — knowledge that may be significant for future pharmaceutical development.

«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.

Today the brain's serotonin system is already a known target for the treatment of depression, and according to researchers it should be possible to use time signals in pharmaceutical development based on stem cells.

«Molecular time signalling controls stem cells during brain's development.»

The patients, of course, look at their legs while trying to walk, and since visual signals override tactile signals most of the time, their brains converted signals to their arms and [they] began feeling sensations that seemed to be coming from their paralyzed legs.

Moser's approach — risky at the time, he says — merged psychology with physiology, investigating synaptic plasticity by recording neural signals from intact mammalian brains.

But while the areas of the brain involved in estimating spatial orientation have been identified for some time, until now, no one has been able to either show that distinct neurons signaling «sensory conflicts» existed, nor demonstrate exactly how they work.

Using a powerful gene - hunting technique for the first time in mammalian brain cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have identified a gene involved in building the circuitry that relays signals through the brain.

We have evolved an efficient brain system to help maintain a healthy and consistent body weight by signaling when it is time to eat and when it is time to stop.

Forward - looking studies are examining other possible information couriers: glial cells (poorly understood brain cells that are 10 times as common as neurons), other kinds of signaling mechanisms between cells (such as newly discovered gases and peptides), and the biochemical cascades that take place inside cells.

Even though the algorithm was not given any characteristics ahead of time, it works as quickly and precisely as traditional systems that have been created to solve certain tasks based on predetermined brain signal characteristics, which are therefore not appropriate for every situation.

By about the fourth or fifth time I came across this signal, my brain said, «You've seen something like this before.»

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

The ability of the brain's visual timekeeper to override its auditory timekeeper probably reflects our brain's tendency to give more weight to signals that might represent a threat, according to Marc Wittmann, a time researcher at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the study.

This analysis allowed the team to trace the genetic signals driving brain development at a much finer level, both regionally and over time, than had previously been possible.

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.

That means researchers will need to find other ways to pass electrical signals from a prostheses to the brain in a way that is stable and safe for long periods of time.

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.

«In this study, a new «source analysis» method was used for the first time to measure functional networks in the infant brain: with the help of a computer model, the measured EEG signals were interpreted as activity in the infant cortex, which enabled the evaluation of the functional networking of neurons in a very versatile manner on the cortical level,» says Sampsa Vanhatalo, a professor in clinical neurophysiology and the head of the study.

But the neuron first remained inhibited for a longer time, and that time overlapped with the time the cell was excited, which had the effect of suppressing the signal emitted by the brain cell.

When the researchers looked at brain size, they found that for fighters who had increasing levels of tau over time, there was a 7 percent decline in the volume of their thalamus, which is located in the center of the brain and regulates sleep, consciousness, alertness, cognitive function and language while also sending sensory and movement signals to other portions of the brain.

Perhaps, the early brain investigators considered, it took time for nerves to send signals too.

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.

«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.

«While the flashing lights are signals that we're putting into the brain, those parts of the brain are doing a million other things at any given time too,» Prat said.

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.