Sentences with word «volitional»

Once the drinking has passed a certain point and is out of volitional control, it becomes a sickness.

What's new is that we have been able to use this artificial neuronal connection bypassing the lesion site to restore volitional control of the subject's own paretic arm.

Beverly's volitional memory has to inhibit her will to say something before Friday and to see that she waits until the right moment at the meeting to most effectively interject her ideas.

A widely held view has been that unwanted movements such as tics in Tourette syndrome are actively suppressed through the recruitment of frontal brain areas involved in volitional action and cognitive control.

And although the difference of the emotional, rational, and volitional aspects of consciousness were to some degree recognized, there was no clear analysis, if even any admission of the desirability of such analysis.

In contrast to this view, mental health professionals practicing in the forensic arena often find evidence of substantial volitional activity on the part of the alienating parent in severe PAS.

If consent and affection are the only criteria for marriage, then any kind of volitional relationship qualifies as a marriage, be it polyamorous, polygamous, «monogamish,» or something else.

Rather, it appeared entirely volitional and controlled.

We are undoubtedly intelligent and volitional beings.

Human volitional action operates on a much smaller scale and sometimes renders itself ineffectual.

Danielle A. Schlosser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director of the Digital Health Core in the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the NIH - funded Digital Research and Interventions for Volitional Enhancement (DRIVE) lab at UCSF Dr. Schlosser's research program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depression.

We need to distinguish the kind of volitional force which is a liberating and not a binding power on others.

This allowed the monkey to electrically stimulate the spinal cord through volitionally controlled brain activity and thereby to restore volitional control of the paretic hand.

Behavioral analysis of volitional foot placement was tested using a grid - walk behavioral test (Foot Misplacement Apparatus, Columbus Instruments) as previously described [14], [57].

Priometric exercises are a combination of involuntary reflex followed by rapid volitional muscle contraction.

So, you gain volitional control and you decide what's going to happen during your dream.

There is freedom and liberty and volitional commitment.

Volitional relations to the world can be handled in the same way.

The philosophical tradition has often emphasised the intellectual and volitional centre of the person.

If we are volitional creatures by nature, then we must begin to struggle with the concept of choice as more than simply a conscious, «I woke up one day and decided» sort of thing.

Reflective knowledge and beliefs, however, do increase the effectiveness of elements of the past in shaping the affective - volitional orientation characteristic of one's existence.

Even the cross, which might be used as a metaphor of volitional suffering, has been turned into a tool requiring it.

Theistic imagery can «suggest patterns and unity in the totality of things» by virtue of «an appeal to personal purpose, volitional power, and moral principle as the ultimate explanatory categories».

And yet, I am not here speaking of a spiritual, that is, volitional phenomenon, but rather what originates as a pre-volitional movement of the senses.

We easily visualize other orders, a variety of modes for the future, and we deliberate over which direction to commit volitional energy.

What the community believed, did, and produced would be more volitional and natural rather than forced and fake.

Our scientific - critical thinking, our total experience of life, our emotional and volitional ways of reaction, are strongly shaped by our specific Christian presuppositions and Western ways of thought and life.

Harrison's view assumes a world of rational choice and volitional privilege.

These are as real in human experience as space and time, and the way contingent future events are sometimes altered by volitional decision makes us unwilling to see that human effort is of no avail.

The process of socially - uprooting and re-establishing evokes a sort of volitional paralysis.

The personal concept of the world and its phenomena then prevalent would seem to weaken this conviction, introducing an element of volitional caprice.

That said, are we really going to agree with Edward T. Oakes («Philosophy in an Old Key,» December 2000) that someone like Bryan Magee who refuses to love God with all his mind is, in the active, volitional sense of the term, giving glory to God?

Baby will have begun to develop volitional or intentional movements and may be frustrated by the strength challenges of this position.

Although babywearing supports and enhances postural and head control, babies need to be belly down to the earth in order for all of the natural postural reflexes to be optimally stimulated and integrated into smooth volitional movements and eventually for crawling.

For instance, the nerves that once sent signals to Herr's ankles and feet are still there, ready but unable to deliver volitional signals to the missing limbs.

This study demonstrates that artificial neural connections can compensate for interrupted descending pathways and promote volitional control of upper limb movement after damage of neural pathways such as spinal cord injury or stroke.

This unique pattern may offer insights into cognitive dissociations that may be intrinsic to the creative process: the innovative, internally motivated production of novel material (at once rule based and highly structured) that can apparently occur outside of conscious awareness and beyond volitional control.

Such a pattern may reflect a combination of psychological processes required for spontaneous improvisation, in which internally motivated, stimulus - independent behaviors unfold in the absence of central processes that typically mediate self - monitoring and conscious volitional control of ongoing performance.

The first objective was to determine if an acute bout of SMR via a high - pressure foam roller affects volitional and evoked quadriceps muscle force.