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When one morning, years after the crash, I stepped onto stone and the underside of my left foot felt the flash of cold, nerves at last awake, it was exhilarating, a gust of snow.
When I think about moving my legs, neural signals from my central nervous system pass through my nerves and activate muscles within my residual limbs.
When these muscles flex and extend, biological sensors within the muscle tendons send information through nerves to the brain.
The AMI is a method to connect nerves within the residuum to an external, bionic prosthesis.
When Jim moves his phantom limb, the reconnected muscles move in dynamic pairs, causing signals of proprioception to pass through nerves to the brain, so Jim experiences normal sensations with ankle-foot positions and movements, even when blindfolded.
The pituitary tumor, as it grows, often starts to compress the visual nerves in your brain, with the result that people with acromegaly have either double vision or they are profoundly nearsighted.
When I looked at the case sheet, I found that they had an actual arm, and the nerves supplying the arm had been cut, and the actual arm had been paralyzed, and lying in a sling for several months before the amputation, and this pain then gets carried over into the phantom itself.
He had a brachial avulsion, so the nerves were cut and the arm was paralyzed, lying in a sling for a year, and then the arm was amputated.
And this is a radically new concept that may apply to other neurological disorders, what I termed "personalized neuroprosthetics," where by sensing and stimulating neural interfaces, I implanted throughout the nervous system, in the brain, in the spinal cord, even in peripheral nerves, based on patient-specific impairments.
It's amazing and it's occurred because there are stem cells in the brain, even, which can enable new myelin, new insulation, to be laid down over the damaged nerves.
We took patients with multiple sclerosis and asked a simple question: Would stem cells from the bone marrow be protective of their nerves?
And that's telling you that the optic nerve is shrinking, which makes sense, because their nerves are dying.
I don't think myself that what's happened is that those stem cells have made new myelin or new nerves.
We're doing experiments where we're growing nerves, transected nerves, through channels, or micro-channel arrays.
It's really hard, but in essence, nerves from the brain go up into the nose and on these nerves exposed in the nose to the outside air are receptors, and odor molecules coming in on a sniff interact with these receptors, and if they bond, they send the nerve a signal which goes back into the brain.
We are breaking my nerves very slowly.
The needles punch through the epidermis, allowing ink to seep deep into the dermis, which is composed of collagen fibers, nerves, glands, blood vessels and more.
Around the skeleton are the muscles, nerves, arteries and veins that form the body's soft tissue layers.
In areas that are the most compressed, your nerves, arteries and veins can become blocked, which limits nerve signaling, causing the numbness, and reduces blood flow in your limbs, causing them to swell.
They send signals along your nerves to the sacral region in your spinal cord.
Since blood vessels and nerves in our teeth are enclosed deep within, at this stage, the expanding cavity doesn't hurt.
But if the damage extends beyond the dentin, the bacterial invasion progresses causing excruciating pain as the nerves become exposed.
And surprisingly, in many people, especially those with diabetes, which affects the nerves that carry pain, a heart attack may be silent.
Histamine also activates the nerves involved in itching, which is why bug bites make you scratch.
Researchers have discovered that itch signals in their skin are transmitted via a subclass of the nerves that are associated with pain.
These dedicated nerves produce a molecule called natriuretic polypetide B, which triggers a signal that's carried up the spinal cord to the brain, where it creates the feeling of an itch.
Tense muscles and inflamed, sensitive nerves cause varying degrees of discomfort in each headache.
Most people intuitively blame it on their nerves, but why does being nervous undermine expert performance?
So our team released a very easy, simple-to-use tool in plain language to help people prepare, to help ease their nerves, to help them feel more confident in taking the next step in pursuing their American dream.
This image reminds me of two things: our blood vessels and the structure and organization of our nerves and spinal cord.
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