impulses

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These include when the electrical impulses that regulate heartbeats don't function properly, or when the walls of the heart become inflamed or damaged.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

There are more impulses and ideas than can be dramatically metabolized.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Are we still deserving of kindness when someone knows our darkest, most cruel impulses?

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Messages arrive chemically in the dendrites, where they are converted to electrical impulses, which travel down the axon, the long body of the cell.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman