Sentences with phrase «voluntary control muscles»

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But the cerebral cortex — the part of the brain that has thoughts, stores memories, and controls voluntary muscle movement — only kicks into gear after encountering the world outside the womb.

Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakness and progressive wasting of the muscles, while ALS impacts nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

The rare progressive condition attacks nerve cells located in the brain and spinal cord responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

Many ultimately regained voluntary control of their leg muscles, standing up and even walking on their own.

Within just a few days of the start of stimulation, all three patients regained some voluntary control of previously paralyzed muscles.

Friedreich's is the most common recessive ataxia (a lack of muscle control in voluntary movement) and results from deficient expression of the small mitochondrial protein frataxin.

Now, in this follow - up study, Claudia Angeli, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Louisville's Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center and her research colleagues report that three additional patients with paralysis have recovered voluntary muscle control following electrical stimulation of the spine.

Ian Burkhart, a 23 - year - old quadriplegic from Dublin, Ohio, is the first patient to use Neurobridge, an electronic neural bypass for spinal cord injuries that reconnects the brain directly to muscles, allowing voluntary and functional control of a paralyzed limb.

The motor nerves that are affected when you have ALS are the motor neurons that provide voluntary movements and muscle control.

This consortium of researchers, clinicians, and patients, has «systematically investigated and graded» evidence for over 35 «alternative» treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal disease that destroys the nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

SMA is typically marked by the degeneration of voluntary muscle movement including the muscles that control crawling, walking, swallowing or breathing.

It is caused by a missing or defective gene that maintains the health of spinal nerves called motor neurons, which control voluntary muscle function.

We use models to study the form of time - varying control signals to muscles that the central nervous system must generate to produce voluntary movement.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as called Lou Gehrig's, disease is a rapidly progressive, fatal neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells (neurons) responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

Diverse approaches such as multisensory integration searches, psychophysics of perception of gravitational movements, control of eye movements, interlimb coordination, muscle synergies, and locomotor rhythms are considered for the generation of voluntary movement.

Both postural and phasic muscles are skeletal muscle, which is categorized as voluntary muscle: voluntary, as opposed to the smooth muscle your organs are made of, which is involuntary — meaning your organs continue to do their job without your conscious control or consent (even, for example, when you're not thinking about what your small intestine is doing).

Taking serovital definitely has benefited me in body composition like fat verses muscle mass, decrease abdominal fatty tissue, better sleep pattern, higher energy level, better muscle control voluntary and involuntarily and it does reverse a few normal aging signs on skin, nails and hair.

Skeletal muscles are under voluntary control, which means you consciously control what they do.

These are your voluntary (VOL - uhn - ter - ee) muscles, which means you can control their movements.

Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS disease is responsible for the gradual deterioration of voluntary muscle control which will affect behaviors such as chewing, walking, breathing and talking.