Sentences with phrase «with electrical signaling»

In experiments, so - called fast - twitch muscles and slow - twitch muscles assumed each other's characteristics when stimulated with electrical signals characteristic of the other type.

A similar premise underlies one of Heller's prior inventions: a small device, ideal for diabetics, that instantly indicates blood - sugar levels with an electrical signal.

As such, most stylus nibs have to be big enough to fake a finger gesture — usually around 6 to 9 millimeters wide — or they have to fake it with electrical signals.1

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Colorado - based Cochlear's processors gather sound from the environment, turning it into an electrical signal and send it to an electrode implanted in the ears of people with hearing loss.

By using methods and tools such as EEG or MRI, neuromarketing read electrical signals from the brain and analyze them to provide their clients with the answers they need.

In animal studies, too much fibrin in the central nervous system has been associated with breakdown of the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves and allows them to conduct electrical signals properly.

The inner ear is lined with approximately 30,000 sensitive hair cells that convert sound energy into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

His mission — called the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment — will allow scientists to better model electrical activity that can interfere with signals from satellites and spacecraft.

The inner ear comprises the hearing organ or cochlea, together with the five balance organs (the saccule, utricle and three semicircular canals), which contain the sensory cells, or hair cells, that detect mechanical vibrations and convert them into electrical signals.

They managed to record the reactions at very high resolution, as the electrical signals were carefully controlled and could therefore be delivered multiple times with exact reproducibility.

Although a cell phone is much less powerful than TMS, the question still remains: Could the electrical signals coming from a phone affect certain brainwaves operating in resonance with cell phone transmission frequencies?

Stimulating weakened muscles with a pattern of electrical signals produced by healthy muscles may encourage them to regenerate and dramatically improve their function.

Seeking to combine DBS's deep - brain targeting with TMS's noninvasiveness, Boyden's MIT team, led by bioengineer Nir Grossman, took advantage of a well - known property of neurons: They respond only to low - frequency electrical signals.

In this research, authors worked with electrical brain signals that allowed the activation of the presentation of visual stimuli in the iPad's touchscreen.

Detailed looks at how the brain uses these waves raise the possibility of tweaking the signals with electrical nudges — interventions that could lead to therapies that can correct memory problems and mental illness, for instance.

Graphene transistors integrated in a flexible neural probe enables electrical signals from neurons to be measured with high accuracy and density.

The team reported in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics that, compared with controls, PGD mice were more forgetful, heavier and had less myelin (a fatty coating on nerves that allows electrical signals to move quickly across nerve cells).

Nerve cells exchange information with each other in the form of electrical signals via so - called synapses.

The scientists conducted 186 trials, presenting the dolphin with a range of electrical signals from low to high.

This power failure, the team found, is caused by disruption to the cells» mitochondria — the tiny powerhouses that fuel all cell life — when they become destabilized during the «resuscitation» period after a heart attack and trigger chaotic cell - to - cell signaling that interferes with the heart's entire electrical network.

Along with the fibers, they translate our physical interactions with the world into electrical signals that our brain can process.

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

Three images, left to right, of the same thundercloud depict a less - than -10-milliseconds-long sequence of events: (left) formation within the cloud of a small channel, or «leader,» of electrical conductivity (yellow line) with weak emission of radio signals (ripples), to (middle) a burst of both dark lightning (pink) and radio waves (larger ripples), to (right) a discharge of bright lightning and more radio waves.

A film with higher resistance has lower electrical conductivity, meaning that more voltage must be applied to send a signal through it, which further degrades the material.

Each pyramid, in turn, is equipped with an electrode, for measuring electrical signals or sending stimuli to the network.

Receptors facilitate chemical and electrical signals between neurons in the brain, allowing those neurons to communicate with each other.

Nerves and other electrically - excitable cells communicate with one another by transmitting electrical signals, and sodium channels play a vital role in this process.

By also collaborating with James Hone, a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia, they designed a better way to connect electrical signal lines to the sandwiched graphene.

Some of the pinpointed genes are known to be involved in the function of synapses, tiny connectors that allow brain cells to communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals.

Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology reported in last week's Nature (4 February, p428) that they had developed a way of controlling liquid - crystal screens with laser light rather than electrical signals.

One alternative is to replace electrical interconnects with energy - efficient optical interconnects that carry data using light signals.

This electrical pulse, combined with the signal received from other neurons, acts to stimulate the synapses.

Stimulating excitatory cells with chemicals or electric pulses causes them to fire, or send electrical signals of their own to neighboring neurons.

During the renal denervation procedure with the Symplicity device used in this trial, a catheter is threaded through arteries to deliver radiofrequency energy that inactivates kidney nerves, interrupting electrical signals to and from the kidney, an organ that performs a major role in regulating blood pressure.

Epilepsy researchers around the world have been working for decades to identify patterns of electrical activity in the brain that signal an oncoming seizure, but with limited success.

In the approximately 30 seconds between a rat's last heartbeat and the point when its brain stopped producing signals, the team carefully recorded its neuronal oscillations, or the frequency with which brain cells were firing their electrical signals.

Concurrently, the research team recorded electrical signals from TRN neurons and also tracked the mice's behavior while at the same time inactivating various parts of the brain's neural circuits with a laser beam.

Various previous studies had shown that epigenetic remodeling of DNA by methylation or demethylation led to changes located in synapses, where one neuron communicates with another by chemical or electrical signals sent across a small gap.

When the sensors come into contact with sweat they generate electrical signals that are amplified and filtered, and then calibrated using skin temperature.

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.

Neurons communicate with each other through chemical and electrical signals that can be excitatory (activating) or inhibitory (deactivating), depending on their class: Pyramidal cells are excitatory neurons whilst interneurons are inhibitory.

Depression is associated with a multitude of pathological processes, including inflammation of the peripheral immune system, a set of biological structures and processes in the lymph nodes and other tissues that protect against disease and abnormalities involving synapses, the structures that permit neurons to pass an electrical or chemical signal to other neurons.

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.

Cells are chatty, constantly exchanging proteins or electrical signals with their neighbors.

Electronics researchers would like to integrate silicon light emitters with other silicon electronics, in order to send signals between chips optically, avoiding bottlenecks caused by electrical transmission and so speed up communications.

The inner ear turns sound waves into electrical signals inside the organ of Corti, which is lined with rows of 15,000 to 20,000 hairlike cells.

To build the prototype glasses that could exploit these signals, el Kaliouby worked with Picard, who is an electrical engineer.

Used in conjunction with a photodetector, the filter converts optical signals to electrical signals.

Brain cells communicate with each other by firing off tiny chemical and electrical signals.