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The dot is visible whenever a cell fires an electrical impulse.
In this example, each electrical impulse, each deflection on the trace, is caused by a brief pulse of light.
And they'd have symptoms like memory problems and problems with cognition, depression, impulse control issues, aggression.
I also began to investigate the vast possibilities of color: its emotional values, psychological impulse, poetic allure and a boundless capacity beyond the realm of meaning and logic.
It is a perpetual impulse that pushes galaxies apart from each other.
So recently, when my family asked me if I could please do something with the more than 250 boxes of stuff that I've collected over a lifetime, my ritual-making impulse kicked in.
And aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy to create images in order for us to explore our world?
Somehow in tickling our eardrum that transmits energy down our hearing bones, which get converted to a fluid impulse inside the cochlea and then somehow converted into an electrical signal in our auditory nerves that somehow wind up in our brains as a perception of a song or a beautiful piece of music.
But introverts, you being you, you probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase.
Now the Minotaur IV has too much impulse, so we have to bleed it off by flying the rocket at an 89 degree angle of attack for portions of the trajectory.
Now the impulse to notate, or, more exactly I should say, encode music has been with us for a very long time.
And a thousand years later, this impulse to notate took an entirely different form.
I can understand how, I mean, because I don't have a pedigree in visual art and I don't have any training, but it's just something that I wanted to do as an extension of my composition, as an extension of a kind of creative impulse.
So what's sometimes seen as the problem with adolescents — heightened risk-taking, poor impulse control, self-consciousness — shouldn't be stigmatized.
Deep within us, we all have this impulse to seek out joy in our surroundings.
In fact, he was so sure that he could only be majnun, possessed by a jinn, that when he found himself still alive, his first impulse was to finish the job himself, to leap off the highest cliff and escape the terror of what he'd experienced by putting an end to all experience.
What's happening when that happens is that the electrical impulse is causing all their muscle fibers to twitch at once, and they're throwing themselves across the room.
So if I'm understanding correctly, one of the monkeys is actually getting a signal and the other monkey is reacting to that signal just because the first one is receiving it and transmitting the neurological impulse.
It inhibits the prefrontal cortex, which is necessary for impulse control and executive function, a critical area for learning.
So my first impulse in the face of all of this attention was to become very protective of my own relationship.
The other piece of the puzzle is that OCD is associated with low levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that communicates between brain structures and helps regulate vital processes, such as mood, aggression, impulse control, sleep, appetite, body temperature and pain.
We all know this, and yet, in the checklisted childhood, we absolve our kids of doing the work of chores around the house, and then they end up as young adults in the workplace still waiting for a checklist, but it doesn't exist, and more importantly, lacking the impulse, the instinct to roll up their sleeves and pitch in and look around and wonder, how can I be useful to my colleagues?
The impulse to respond in kind is so tempting, but that isn't who we want to be.
You see, the first time, he was playing with an impulse on every note.
And the second, with an impulse every other note.
The nine-year-old put an impulse on every four notes.
And the 11-year-old, one impulse on the whole phrase.
But I think the impulse to trivialize sex is part of our problem.
And even though, for political tactical reasons, the president has been very, very good about saying that Islam is not the enemy, nonetheless, there's a natural impulse when one enters war to think of the other side as an enemy.
And one furthermore has the impulse to generalize, as much as possible, in defining who that enemy is.
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