But for those with the conventional wiring of the nervous system, nothing is quite like short-selling.
ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.
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These cells are involved in the development of the nervous system and other tissues.
The goal is to prevent the degeneration of the nervous system and brain that is caused by the disease.
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For the moment, Dr Dugan is more interested in using fullerenes to probe the workings of the nervous system.
Guillain Barre syndrome is a disease of the nervous system which causes numbness and weakness and a degree of paralysis.
The study results point to the possible role omega-3s play in the development and maintenance of the nervous system, says Lammi-Keefe, who recommends that pregnant women eat at least three servings of omega-3-rich fish every week.
Acoustic shocks are defined as "any temporary or permanent disturbance of the functioning of the ear, or of the nervous system, which may be caused to the user of a telephone earphone by a sudden sharp rise in the acoustic pressure produced by it".
The scientists have likely gotten these new results because, even when a person is in a coma, "parts of the nervous system that are still functioning are capable of learning and capable of changing their activity patterns, " said Dr. Daniel Hanley, professor of neurology, neurosurgery and anesthesia at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who is not involved with Sharon's care.
Sleep deprivation also led to an increase in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls many of the body's "involuntary" functions.
Huntington's disease is an hereditary neurological disorder of the central nervous system that causes progressive degeneration of cells in the brain, slowly impairing a person's ability to walk, think, talk and reason.
The team believe that not only do the growth factors play a key role in development of the central nervous system, but also that too much of them may disrupt the normal process by which a cell develops into the correct type and moves to the right area, and dies at the right time.
In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.
Omega-3 fatty acids may also be an important component of the central nervous system, says Carol J.
But modern acupuncturists say the technique's effectiveness can be explained by an understanding of the central nervous system.
This, in turn, reduces hyper-activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which is an established contributor to chronic hypertension.
Meningitis is an aggressive disease when bacteria invade the protective membranes of the central nervous system and cause adverse inflammatory responses.
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The firm plans to invest in three main areas: cancer, metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity, and diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer's, depression and schizophrenia.
Smokeless nicotine, ingested via a skin patch, is less than ideal because its effects on the body are too broad to treat diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer's.
Elan and American Home Products have ended trials of their Alzheimer's vaccine--once seen as one of the most promising new approaches to treating the disease--after 15 patients suffered a potentially serious side effect: swelling of the central nervous system.
This backlash will help define the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in the coming years, because it means over time a shift in opportunities and capital away from a search for the next psychiatric blockbuster toward solutions to more tractable human troubles that arise outside of the central nervous system.
They'd operate as the sum of many independent, relatively dumb processes--just like the autonomic functions of the human central nervous system, from which they take their name.
Intel has already pushed Nvidia out of the business of supplying computer chipsets, the digital nervous system that all processors plug into to power PCs and laptops.
Heart-rate variability, says Dr Stein, is a good index of the degree of control an individual has over his autonomic nervous system (which controls many of the internal organs).
Fink, with his many titles, has become the central nervous system of the Kochtopus.
After 90 days, a-syn proteins resembling Lewy bodies were widely distributed throughout the central nervous system of the first group, suggesting a-syn from diseased tissues had a highly potent seeding effect, researchers said.
Over the course of 14 painstaking years the team managed to map the complete nervous system of C. elegans, work for which Dr Brenner, too, won a Nobel prize.
Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs.
Dr Lloyd-Evans explains that the absence of cholesterol in the brains of SLOS sufferers means that the neurons and the central nervous system are affected, causing anything from mild personality disorders to severe malformations and multi-organ disease.
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