This spring, doctors and researchers from the University of Louisville and the University of California, Los Angeles, said four men who had been paralyzed for years were able to regain movement in their legs, hips, ankles, and toes, and even stand using an implanted device that stimulated their spinal cords, a technique called epidural stimulation.
The researchers stimulated their subjects' visual cortex using a method called transcranial magnetic stimulation.
The rich Waldorf curriculum stimulated their sensing, knowing and creating.
In the classroom his lectures stimulated their interests in mammalian evolution.
Number 1: they'll be enjoying the holiday while I'm out slaving on the road; and number 2: they actually like the expression; it has stimulated their thinking.
Instead of adding stem cells they have stimulated their animals' thymuses to make more of a protein known as FOXN1.
It was known that when estrogen occupied its receptor on the surface of breast cancer cells, it stimulated their growth.
As they slept, researchers electrically stimulated their brains with a mild,.75 hertz current at 5-minute intervals during an early, 30-minute period of non-REM sleep.
For example, when our paleolithic ancestors happened upon ripe autumn fruits, ingestion of the simple sugar fructose stimulated their appetites, encouraging them to eat more and more.
The emergence of nanofluids as an attractive new class of thermal fluids, with enhanced heat transfer characteristics, rapidly stimulated their use in engineering applications.
In Galenic medical traditions, roast beef was forbidden to scholars and philosophers, either because it stimulated their natural "melancholic" humor or because the difficulty of digesting it drained the vital spirits away from higher contemplation.
