Sentences with phrase «with electrical impulses»

Stimulating muscles with electrical impulses has allowed paralysed people to walk.

BRAIN shrinkage in people with Alzheimer's disease can be reversed in some cases — by jolting the degenerating tissue with electrical impulses.

Medical device giant Medtronic has received FDA clearance for its latest non-medication pain treatment: Intellis, a system which stimulates the spinal cord with electrical impulses to block pain messages from making it to the brain.

Chao spoke of learning to speak the language of the brain — which he contended was better done with electrical impulses than chemical compounds.

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To illustrate, research has discovered that changes in our skin temperature and the degree of skin conductivity of small electrical impulses (both indications of our degree of general relaxation) are correlated with emotional changes.

El Guerrouj is alive with a kind of music when he runs, as if his contracting muscles were firing electrical impulses to his brain.

The only mammal with electroreception, it uses sensors in its bill to detect electrical impulses sent out by prey in murky water.

Scores of laboratories at universities and in private industry are uncovering how to use these cells, which transform into neurons, astrocytes (the cells that regulate transmission of electrical impulses in the brain) and oligodendrocytes (which insulate nerve fibers with a fatty coating).

Together with researchers from Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) Pontedera, Università degli Studi in Milan and Scuola Superiore Sant» Anna in Pisa, Francesco Greco from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Graz presents a novel method in Advanced Science which raises the transmission of electrical impulses from human to machine to the next level using printed tattoo electrodes.

In 2003, Nicolelis's Duke lab gained international attention by showing that monkeys could move robot arms with just their thoughts, feeding electrical impulses from their brains into a computer linked to robotic arms.

All these fast, slow and intermediate electrical impulses and synaptic connections happen continuously, with their pace peaking in the morning.

In areas near where he'd inflicted lesions, the dendrites of the existing cells — the long, tentacled parts of neurons that conduct electrical impulses — had sprouted new branches, each ending with hundreds of new synapses.

In people with these conditions the photoreceptors, which transform light hitting the eye into electrical impulses, are damaged, preventing the brain from receiving image information.

In people with these conditions the retina's photoreceptors — which transform light hitting the eye into electrical impulses — are often damaged, preventing visual information from being sent to the brain.

To visualize neuronal activity in real time, researchers injected mice with a virus that induced their brain cells to glow, or fluoresce, anytime an electrical impulse was triggered by something the mouse saw.

As for those patients whose brains are trapped in inanimate bodies, implants that pick up electrical impulses can already translate neural signals to control a cursor, move a wheelchair, or say hello, although they are not now suitable for people with severe brain injuries.

With a remote control, Darrel uses the stimulator for up to 45 minutes each day, applying different programs to transmit electrical impulses into his spinal cord that mimic the same signals that would come from the brain.

«Now that we know the importance of Irx3,» Dr. Bruneau added, «We need to dig deeper to see if it's possible to use drug therapy to target any of the electrical - impulse pathways that Irx3 regulates with drug therapy.»

http://youtu.be/Q2dxSbjgbugAn electrical impulse propagating erratically through a highly fibrotic artificial tissue is made visible with a voltage - sensitive dye.

The macula is densely packed with photoreceptor cells called rods and cones that react to light and send electrical nerve impulses to the optic nerve and into the brain.

Since lean tissue conducts electrical impulses quicker than fatty tissue, a faster response time is correlated with a leaner physique.

It is required for the development and maintenance of strong bones and teeth and, along with sodium, regulates the cellular membrane potential that allows muscles to contract and neurons to transmit electrical impulses.

Along with potassium, they create a membrane potential, or electrochemical gradient, between cells; the resulting electrical charges carry nerve impulses, contract muscle cells and help regulate your heartbeat.

These neuropath ways are coated with a myelin sheath that allows these electrical impulses to be conducted at a high speed.

Traditionally, it was thought that the there were three main factors that derived from CNS activity that subsequently affected EMG amplitude: the motor unit recruitment extent, the motor unit firing frequency, and the synchronisation of these electrical impulses (with greater synchronisation perhaps implying greater neural drive from the CNS)(see review by Behm, 1995).

Graphic representation of atrial fibrillation with whirlwind of electrical impulses forming in the right (RA) and left atria (LA) instead a single organized impulse from the sinoatrial (SA) node causing the atrial muscle to fibrillate (quiver) instead of an organized contraction to fill the right (RV) and left ventricles (LV).

With each heartbeat, an electrical impulse from the sinoatrial (SA) node of the right atrium causes the muscles of the atrium to contract to pump blood.

In dogs with SSS, the sinus node doesn't consistently discharge an electrical impulse to trigger the heart to contract.

Gunnar Davis is a heavy weapons specialist with an assault rifle as a primary weapon and a pistol for a secondary weapon, while his special abilities include Shockwave which sends a powerful electrical impulse that knocks down enemies; Stasis projects a stasis field that stops time for enemies albeit while simultaneously protecting them from incoming fire, but could still be useful to strategically change position, finding cover or running past a large group of enemies; Barrier creates a protective energy bubble that prevents damage from being received by Gunnar; and Storm hits enemies with a lightning strike.

A Post-Minimalist synthesis of nature and technology, Fujieda's piece was created by measuring the electrical impulses on the leaves of plants and converting the data into sound with a visual programming language.

Such an equilibrium is postulated by all the compartment models with constant inputs and outputs that lead to a set of linear equation and by Laplace transform to expressions like the Bern or Hamburg formulas or other half - lifetime of 40 years to 60 years; the «impulse response» supposes a linear model (akin an electrical RLC network).

Given that premise, our job is to work out the details and they have hardly been all worked out, but when considering what premises are available upon which to base an «ethics» it seems one that starts with an axiom that an objective ethics is possible offers a helluva lot more potential for what we want, for what serves the life of a rational, sentient being, than one that says it's a matter of your bowels, or random electrical impulses in your brain or that your mind that tells you to murder my children is the moral equivalent of my mind telling me to protect yours.