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<\/a><\/span><\/div>The Body Electric<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i>Print your certificate<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i>Print your certificate<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i>Feature Story<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Do the Safe Thing<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Science Concepts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Fantastic Facts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>View Activities & Experiments<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/i>Feature Story<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nElectricity Makes It Happen<\/h2>\n
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When your brain is stimulated, brain cells send millions of fast-moving electrical signals along the pathways of your central nervous system. These paths are nerves that branch out into all your muscles. Whenever you move a muscle, it is powered by electricity running through your nervous system!<\/p>\n
Move your fingers. Blink your eyes. It happens so fast that it seems automatic. People with healthy bodies hardly have to think about moving a muscle at all. But this is not true for people who are completely paralyzed.<\/p>\n
A spinal cord injury, a stroke, or other serious condition can lock people in their bodies. Their brains still produce electrical signals when stimulated. They are alert, intelligent, have memory, and can learn, but since their nervous systems are badly damaged, electrical signals cannot reach their muscles. They can’t move their arms or legs or even speak. People with this “locked-in syndrome” have great difficulty communicating with others.<\/p>\n
Dr. Philip Kennedy is a neurologist, a doctor specializing in the nervous system. His remarkable work helps people with locked-in syndrome. Dr. Kennedy invented the “neurotrophic electrode,” a tiny electrical conductor that is implanted above the ear in a patient’s skull.<\/p>\n
One of the first people to have Dr. Kennedy’s electrode implanted in his brain was Johnny Ray. Before Johnny was paralyzed by a stroke in 1997, he was a construction worker and musician. His stroke locked him up in a body he can’t move at all.<\/p>\n
Now, when Johnny thinks, the implanted electrode carries his brain’s electrical impulses to a computer instead of into his nervous system. While his brain signals can no longer move his fingers to write, or his mouth and tongue to speak, they can control a computer’s cursor the way they once controlled his muscles. He can even create music again, not by playing an instrument with his mouth or hands, but by thinking into his instrument, the computer!<\/p>\n
Connecting the electrical impulses of the human brain to the electronic signals of the computer unlocks paralyzed people from their bodies and gives them a tool to more easily communicate with their families and friends\u2014and the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/i>Do the Safe Thing<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nElectricity Is Shocking<\/strong><\/h2>\nIf you contact the electricity in an appliance, power cord, or power line, you could be seriously injured or killed.<\/p>\n
\n- Contact with low-voltage electricity (such as from an appliance) can cause a heart attack or muscle spasms that may lock you to the power source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Contact with high-voltage electricity (such as from power lines) often blasts a person clear of the circuit, but the shock or fall can be fatal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Protect yourself! Spend some time on this website learning about electricity, and how to stay out of its path.<\/div>
<\/i>Science Concepts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nWhat Is Electricity?<\/h2>\nElectricity<\/strong><\/span> is a form of energy carried by the movement of electrons. An electron<\/strong><\/span> is a particle that orbits the center of an atom<\/strong><\/span>. The electrons of some atoms, like those of copper and other metals, are only loosely attached, which allows electricity to travel through these materials easily. These types of materials are known as conductors.<\/p>\nAn outside force\u2014such as light, heat, pressure, or a chemical reaction\u2014can cause electrons to break free and get \u201cbumped\u201d from one atom to the next. A sequence of electrons then passes from atom to atom. This continuous flow of electrons from atom to atom through a conductor is called electric current.<\/p>\n
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Electric Current<\/h2><\/div><\/div>An outside force causes one or more electrons to get “bumped” to an adjacent atom, which in turn forces that atom to give up one or more electrons to the atom next to it, and so on along the length of the conductor.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/i>Advanced Science Concept<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/i>Print your certificate<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i>Print your certificate<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i>Feature Story<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Do the Safe Thing<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Science Concepts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Fantastic Facts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>View Activities & Experiments<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/i>Feature Story<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nElectricity Makes It Happen<\/h2>\n
When your brain is stimulated, brain cells send millions of fast-moving electrical signals along the pathways of your central nervous system. These paths are nerves that branch out into all your muscles. Whenever you move a muscle, it is powered by electricity running through your nervous system!<\/p>\n
Move your fingers. Blink your eyes. It happens so fast that it seems automatic. People with healthy bodies hardly have to think about moving a muscle at all. But this is not true for people who are completely paralyzed.<\/p>\n
A spinal cord injury, a stroke, or other serious condition can lock people in their bodies. Their brains still produce electrical signals when stimulated. They are alert, intelligent, have memory, and can learn, but since their nervous systems are badly damaged, electrical signals cannot reach their muscles. They can’t move their arms or legs or even speak. People with this “locked-in syndrome” have great difficulty communicating with others.<\/p>\n
Dr. Philip Kennedy is a neurologist, a doctor specializing in the nervous system. His remarkable work helps people with locked-in syndrome. Dr. Kennedy invented the “neurotrophic electrode,” a tiny electrical conductor that is implanted above the ear in a patient’s skull.<\/p>\n
One of the first people to have Dr. Kennedy’s electrode implanted in his brain was Johnny Ray. Before Johnny was paralyzed by a stroke in 1997, he was a construction worker and musician. His stroke locked him up in a body he can’t move at all.<\/p>\n
Now, when Johnny thinks, the implanted electrode carries his brain’s electrical impulses to a computer instead of into his nervous system. While his brain signals can no longer move his fingers to write, or his mouth and tongue to speak, they can control a computer’s cursor the way they once controlled his muscles. He can even create music again, not by playing an instrument with his mouth or hands, but by thinking into his instrument, the computer!<\/p>\n
Connecting the electrical impulses of the human brain to the electronic signals of the computer unlocks paralyzed people from their bodies and gives them a tool to more easily communicate with their families and friends\u2014and the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/i>Do the Safe Thing<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nElectricity Is Shocking<\/strong><\/h2>\nIf you contact the electricity in an appliance, power cord, or power line, you could be seriously injured or killed.<\/p>\n
\n- Contact with low-voltage electricity (such as from an appliance) can cause a heart attack or muscle spasms that may lock you to the power source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
\n- Contact with high-voltage electricity (such as from power lines) often blasts a person clear of the circuit, but the shock or fall can be fatal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Protect yourself! Spend some time on this website learning about electricity, and how to stay out of its path.<\/div>
<\/i>Science Concepts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nWhat Is Electricity?<\/h2>\nElectricity<\/strong><\/span> is a form of energy carried by the movement of electrons. An electron<\/strong><\/span> is a particle that orbits the center of an atom<\/strong><\/span>. The electrons of some atoms, like those of copper and other metals, are only loosely attached, which allows electricity to travel through these materials easily. These types of materials are known as conductors.<\/p>\nAn outside force\u2014such as light, heat, pressure, or a chemical reaction\u2014can cause electrons to break free and get \u201cbumped\u201d from one atom to the next. A sequence of electrons then passes from atom to atom. This continuous flow of electrons from atom to atom through a conductor is called electric current.<\/p>\n
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Electric Current<\/h2><\/div><\/div>An outside force causes one or more electrons to get “bumped” to an adjacent atom, which in turn forces that atom to give up one or more electrons to the atom next to it, and so on along the length of the conductor.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/i>Advanced Science Concept<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/i>Print your certificate<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i>Feature Story<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Do the Safe Thing<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Science Concepts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>Fantastic Facts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/i>View Activities & Experiments<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/i>Feature Story<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nElectricity Makes It Happen<\/h2>\n
When your brain is stimulated, brain cells send millions of fast-moving electrical signals along the pathways of your central nervous system. These paths are nerves that branch out into all your muscles. Whenever you move a muscle, it is powered by electricity running through your nervous system!<\/p>\n
Move your fingers. Blink your eyes. It happens so fast that it seems automatic. People with healthy bodies hardly have to think about moving a muscle at all. But this is not true for people who are completely paralyzed.<\/p>\n
A spinal cord injury, a stroke, or other serious condition can lock people in their bodies. Their brains still produce electrical signals when stimulated. They are alert, intelligent, have memory, and can learn, but since their nervous systems are badly damaged, electrical signals cannot reach their muscles. They can’t move their arms or legs or even speak. People with this “locked-in syndrome” have great difficulty communicating with others.<\/p>\n
Dr. Philip Kennedy is a neurologist, a doctor specializing in the nervous system. His remarkable work helps people with locked-in syndrome. Dr. Kennedy invented the “neurotrophic electrode,” a tiny electrical conductor that is implanted above the ear in a patient’s skull.<\/p>\n
One of the first people to have Dr. Kennedy’s electrode implanted in his brain was Johnny Ray. Before Johnny was paralyzed by a stroke in 1997, he was a construction worker and musician. His stroke locked him up in a body he can’t move at all.<\/p>\n
Now, when Johnny thinks, the implanted electrode carries his brain’s electrical impulses to a computer instead of into his nervous system. While his brain signals can no longer move his fingers to write, or his mouth and tongue to speak, they can control a computer’s cursor the way they once controlled his muscles. He can even create music again, not by playing an instrument with his mouth or hands, but by thinking into his instrument, the computer!<\/p>\n
Connecting the electrical impulses of the human brain to the electronic signals of the computer unlocks paralyzed people from their bodies and gives them a tool to more easily communicate with their families and friends\u2014and the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/i>Do the Safe Thing<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nElectricity Is Shocking<\/strong><\/h2>\nIf you contact the electricity in an appliance, power cord, or power line, you could be seriously injured or killed.<\/p>\n
\n- Contact with low-voltage electricity (such as from an appliance) can cause a heart attack or muscle spasms that may lock you to the power source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
\n- Contact with high-voltage electricity (such as from power lines) often blasts a person clear of the circuit, but the shock or fall can be fatal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Protect yourself! Spend some time on this website learning about electricity, and how to stay out of its path.<\/div>
<\/i>Science Concepts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\nWhat Is Electricity?<\/h2>\nElectricity<\/strong><\/span> is a form of energy carried by the movement of electrons. An electron<\/strong><\/span> is a particle that orbits the center of an atom<\/strong><\/span>. The electrons of some atoms, like those of copper and other metals, are only loosely attached, which allows electricity to travel through these materials easily. These types of materials are known as conductors.<\/p>\nAn outside force\u2014such as light, heat, pressure, or a chemical reaction\u2014can cause electrons to break free and get \u201cbumped\u201d from one atom to the next. A sequence of electrons then passes from atom to atom. This continuous flow of electrons from atom to atom through a conductor is called electric current.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Electric Current<\/h2><\/div><\/div>An outside force causes one or more electrons to get “bumped” to an adjacent atom, which in turn forces that atom to give up one or more electrons to the atom next to it, and so on along the length of the conductor.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/i>Advanced Science Concept<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/i>Feature Story<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>Do the Safe Thing<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>Science Concepts<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>Fantastic Facts<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>View Activities & Experiments<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
<\/i>Feature Story<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
\nElectricity Makes It Happen<\/h2>\n
When your brain is stimulated, brain cells send millions of fast-moving electrical signals along the pathways of your central nervous system. These paths are nerves that branch out into all your muscles. Whenever you move a muscle, it is powered by electricity running through your nervous system!<\/p>\nMove your fingers. Blink your eyes. It happens so fast that it seems automatic. People with healthy bodies hardly have to think about moving a muscle at all. But this is not true for people who are completely paralyzed.<\/p>\n
A spinal cord injury, a stroke, or other serious condition can lock people in their bodies. Their brains still produce electrical signals when stimulated. They are alert, intelligent, have memory, and can learn, but since their nervous systems are badly damaged, electrical signals cannot reach their muscles. They can’t move their arms or legs or even speak. People with this “locked-in syndrome” have great difficulty communicating with others.<\/p>\n
Dr. Philip Kennedy is a neurologist, a doctor specializing in the nervous system. His remarkable work helps people with locked-in syndrome. Dr. Kennedy invented the “neurotrophic electrode,” a tiny electrical conductor that is implanted above the ear in a patient’s skull.<\/p>\n
One of the first people to have Dr. Kennedy’s electrode implanted in his brain was Johnny Ray. Before Johnny was paralyzed by a stroke in 1997, he was a construction worker and musician. His stroke locked him up in a body he can’t move at all.<\/p>\n
Now, when Johnny thinks, the implanted electrode carries his brain’s electrical impulses to a computer instead of into his nervous system. While his brain signals can no longer move his fingers to write, or his mouth and tongue to speak, they can control a computer’s cursor the way they once controlled his muscles. He can even create music again, not by playing an instrument with his mouth or hands, but by thinking into his instrument, the computer!<\/p>\n
Connecting the electrical impulses of the human brain to the electronic signals of the computer unlocks paralyzed people from their bodies and gives them a tool to more easily communicate with their families and friends\u2014and the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/i>Do the Safe Thing<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
\nElectricity Is Shocking<\/strong><\/h2>\n
If you contact the electricity in an appliance, power cord, or power line, you could be seriously injured or killed.<\/p>\n
- \n
- Contact with low-voltage electricity (such as from an appliance) can cause a heart attack or muscle spasms that may lock you to the power source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n
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- Contact with high-voltage electricity (such as from power lines) often blasts a person clear of the circuit, but the shock or fall can be fatal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Protect yourself! Spend some time on this website learning about electricity, and how to stay out of its path.<\/div>
<\/i>Science Concepts<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
\nWhat Is Electricity?<\/h2>\nElectricity<\/strong><\/span> is a form of energy carried by the movement of electrons. An electron<\/strong><\/span> is a particle that orbits the center of an atom<\/strong><\/span>. The electrons of some atoms, like those of copper and other metals, are only loosely attached, which allows electricity to travel through these materials easily. These types of materials are known as conductors.<\/p>\n
An outside force\u2014such as light, heat, pressure, or a chemical reaction\u2014can cause electrons to break free and get \u201cbumped\u201d from one atom to the next. A sequence of electrons then passes from atom to atom. This continuous flow of electrons from atom to atom through a conductor is called electric current.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nElectric Current<\/h2><\/div>
<\/div>An outside force causes one or more electrons to get “bumped” to an adjacent atom, which in turn forces that atom to give up one or more electrons to the atom next to it, and so on along the length of the conductor.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/i>Advanced Science Concept<\/a><\/h2>\n
- Contact with high-voltage electricity (such as from power lines) often blasts a person clear of the circuit, but the shock or fall can be fatal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Contact with low-voltage electricity (such as from an appliance) can cause a heart attack or muscle spasms that may lock you to the power source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n