Sentences with phrase «tiny electrical impulses»

Every moment of every day your dog relies on ionic minerals and trace minerals to generate billions of tiny electrical impulses.

Regardless of the machine, the devices work by sending tiny electrical impulses through the body and measuring how quickly those impulses return.

But the full account of how human thought emerges from a biological brain, a network of billions of neurons communicating via tiny electrical impulses, still ranks among the great scientific mysteries.

It wasn't easy: unlike nerve cells, immune cells don't use tiny electrical impulses to communicate.

Not exact matches

The tiny electrical currents tDCS uses — generally one to two milliamps — can not actually trigger the chemical impulse that crosses a synapse, but some researchers believe tDCS strengthens synaptic connections to make learning more efficient.

In 2004, surgeons placed a tiny 100 - electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processors.

The amplifier translates electrical impulses of the brain into flashes of light that shine through the scalp, where they are picked up by a tiny magnetically attached receiver.

Neurons are somewhat like tiny batteries, needing to be charged in order to fire off an electrical impulse known as a «spike.»

During a seizure, tiny areas of your pet's brain begin sending out electrical impulses that are received by the nerve cells that adjoin them.

From the AV node, the electrical impulse then travels through a common bundle of specialized fibers that then divides into branches to the left and right ventricles and then further branch into many tiny fibers embedded between the muscle cells.