The cavernosal nerve itself is made up of tiny little fibers, while the sural nerve more resembles a cable, making fusing them together difficult.
The idea is that the visual cues, combined with the physical ones help stroke patients rebuild nerve connections more quickly through the combination of stimuli.
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In 2005 and 2006, patients in McAllen received twenty per cent more abdominal ultrasounds, thirty per cent more bone-density studies, sixty per cent more stress tests with echocardiography, two hundred per cent more nerve-conduction studies to diagnose carpal-tunnel syndrome, and five hundred and fifty per cent more urine-flow studies to diagnose prostate troubles.
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Seventy per cent of the 30 patients were referred to a specialist nerve injury clinic more than six months after surgery, despite evidence showing that removing implants soon after surgery reduces the risk of permanent damage.
The hope is that, with Mr Lazarenko out, Mr Kuchma will find the nerve to back reformers more whole-heartedly.
It is made in cells called glial cells, which are usually thought to function merely as insulation for more important nerve cells.
So far this has been tried only in animals, but the results suggest that getting nearer the nerve fibres activates them more precisely.
But they were made to sweat a bit more in that nerve-shredding final over.
But the discovery of stockpiles of the far more deadly German nerve gas, left in Europe after the Second World War, pushed Porton Down into a race against time.
Even more intriguingly, nerve cells in the colons of Parkinson's sufferers who are constipated contain structural abnormalities known as Lewy bodies, which are a hallmark of the affected brain tissue in people with Parkinson's.
The more that the water molecules move in a coherent fashion along nerve fibres, therefore, the better the myelination and the more efficiently those fibres can transmit signals.
The tactile sensors which take the place of nerve endings at the fingertips are even more advanced.
The use of water as a force against the skin increases sensitivity in its nerve endings and hence makes the subject feel more awake and alert.
He backed the UK's recent ban on short-selling - in which traders bet on share prices falling - and said Britain and other governments "should not lose their nerve as they look to identify a few more targets".
Among the more promising is Cyberonics' vagus-nerve stimulation approach, pioneered by Jacob Zabara, its scientific founder who's a retired Temple University physiologist.
Each segment has an electromagnet attached to it, and these are activated by a current that flows from head to tail in more or less the way that a nerve signal flows in a real animal.
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One evening, I found myself in such a place with a thirty-eight-year-old elementary-school teacher who had spent more than ten years plying Match.com and Nerve.com, as well as the analogue markets, in search of someone with whom to spend the rest of her life.
Now a procedure called sural nerve grafting is gaining in popularity for its ability to make surgery a more sex-life-friendly choice.
The most nerve-racking part of the enterprise, however, was backgrounding the more than 100 electing cardinals, all of whom theoretically had a chance at the top job.
Ann Kelley has found an even more powerful layer of control in the amygdala, a center for emotions that also has rich nerve connections to the nose.
When a natural nerve network learns something, the connections between the individual cells change in ways that cause the animal to react more suitably in the future.
It is not yet known whether it is possible to generate extensive neuroplasticity in a system that has been injured for a long time and now contains many more complications such as abundant scar tissue, large holes in the spinal cord and where many spinal nerve cells and long range nerve fibres have died or degenerated.
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