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Sorry to use philosophical terminology here, but when it's secreted at the axon end-plates of the
motor
neurons, a whole lot of wonderful things happen in the ion channels and the damned arm goes up.
It's a thought in my brain, but at the same time, it's busy secreting acetylcholine and doing all sorts of other things as it makes its way from the
motor
cortex down through the nerve fibers in the arm.
So
motor
racing is very much about attention to detail.
Now, in
motor
racing, we're all a little bit ambitious, audacious, a little bit arrogant sometimes, so we decided we would also look at the children as they were being transported to intensive care.
And your
motor
command saying there is an arm, and, because of this conflict, the brain says, to hell with it, there is no phantom, there is no arm, right?
Meanwhile, American ingenuity and innovation has helped to spur industrialization and also helped in the creation and the building of things like household appliances such as refrigerators and televisions,
motor
vehicles and even the mobile phones in your pockets.
They are a right, just as sidewalks are, unless we believe that only those with access to a
motor
vehicle have a right to safe mobility, without the risk of getting killed.
And I could show you equivalent pictures from other disease: multiple sclerosis,
motor
neuron disease, Parkinson's disease, even Huntington's disease, and they would all tell a similar story.
And if the starting dying nerve cell is a
motor
nerve, for example, you'll get
motor
neuron disease.
So I'd like to give you a real-life illustration of what happens with
motor
neuron disease.
And I've asked John to tell us something about what were his problems that led to the initial diagnosis of
motor
neuron disease.
Siddharthan Chandran: I don't know if you caught all of that, but what John was telling us was that difficulty with breathing led eventually to the diagnosis of
motor
neuron disease.
So that's what happens when the
motor
nerve dies.
And human stem cells are these extraordinary but simple cells that can do two things: they can self-renew or make more of themselves, but they can also become specialized to make bone, liver or, crucially, nerve cells, maybe even the
motor
nerve cell or the myelin cell.
It's very simple: You take a patient with a disease, let's say
motor
neuron disease, you take a skin sample, you do the pluripotent reprogramming, as I've already told you, and you generate live
motor
nerve cells.
And what you're looking at, and this is amazing, these are living, growing,
motor
nerve cells from a patient with
motor
neuron disease.
So apart from seeing them grow and put out processes, we can also engineer them so that they fluoresce, but crucially, we can then track their individual health and compare the diseased
motor
nerve cells to the healthy ones.
In the
motor
channels, we can sense how the person wishes to move.
It's not well appreciated, but over half of the world's population suffers from some form of cognitive, emotional, sensory or
motor
condition, and because of poor technology, too often, conditions result in disability and a poorer quality of life.
And she's on a
motor
scooter there, but it's my understanding that's a very tame image of what Gabby Giffords was like growing up.
Quick snapshots of things you might see from a speeding
motor
scooter, and very slow walking through Rome, you might be able to study in more detail some of the wonderful surfaces and whatnot that you come across.
It's nothing but using sensors to read the electrical brainstorms that a brain is producing to generate the
motor
commands that have to be downloaded to the spinal cord, so we projected sensors that can read hundreds and now thousands of these brain cells simultaneously, and extract from these electrical signals the
motor
planning that the brain is generating to actually make us move into space.
That is the definition of a biological computer, interacting by brain activity and achieving a
motor
goal.
The waves were much higher than our boat, and the water poured in faster than the
motor
pumps could take it out.
But some of your neurons right here in your
motor
cortex are going to send messages down when you move your arm like this.
They're going to go down across your corpus callosum, down onto your spinal cord to your lower
motor
neuron out to your muscles here, and that electrical discharge is going to be picked up by these electrodes right here and we're going to be able to listen to exactly what your brain is going to be doing.
So what you're listening to, so this is your
motor
units happening right here.
So right here, these are the
motor
units that are happening from her spinal cord out to her muscle right here, and as she's doing it, you're seeing the electrical activity that's happening here.
So now we've paused on one
motor
action potential that's happening right now inside of your brain.
And then they're drowsy and they're getting behind the wheel of the car, and they're at risk for
motor
vehicle accidents.
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