Sentences with phrase «voluntary muscle movements»

Motor neurons, which are important for voluntary muscle movements, have long been known to release acetylcholine onto both muscle cells in the body and neurons in the spinal cord.

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.

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.

Epilepsy — This condition stems from defects in the electrical transmission of nerve signals within a cat's cerebral cortex, the area of the brain responsible for thought, memory, sensation and voluntary muscle movement.

Not exact matches

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.

Such action potentials from the motor cortex of the brain, for example, are the signals sent to muscles to initiate voluntary movement, such as pointing a finger.

Beyond regaining voluntary movement, the research participants have displayed a myriad of improvements in their overall health, including the increase of muscle mass and regulation of their blood pressure, as well as reduced fatigue and transformational changes to their sense of well - being.

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

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.

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.

The presence of different levels of muscle activity has been observed both using surface electrodes and fine wire (intramuscular electrodes) and during maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC), resistance training exercises, and normal humans movements such as gait.

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