If you don't reward them, the receptors will have atrophied.
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She lost a lot of weight, and her muscles atrophied.
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Unfortunately, the performance has atrophied in tandem with their trendiness.
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The robust interagency exchange that typically characterizes complex decisions has atrophied.
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Some he perhaps never had, others have presumably atrophied with age.
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For nearly 103 years, her health deteriorated and her spirit atrophied.
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Over the past half-century, Africa's mostly colonial railways have mostly atrophied.
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Even with fewer touches in less minutes, Anthony's defense atrophied last year.
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But if my muscles weren't completely atrophied, why was it falling out?
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To reassert itself, Congress will need to restore its atrophied legislative muscles.
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Three months in a cast left my atrophied foot floppy and useless.
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But the habit of frequent, intimate discussions has atrophied and trust has faded.
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This limb eventually atrophied, causing the desperate canine to bite it off completely.
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After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia's conventional capabilities atrophied quickly.
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"I watched my mother learn to write again with atrophied hands," says McDonough.
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However, life under occupation atrophied this connection through policies that prevent access to crops.
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She told Vogue in 2014: I felt like I had atrophied in a way.
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She said the muscles around her mouth had atrophied, making it difficult to smile.
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My leg muscles have largely atrophied, making my calves no thicker than my arms.
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Arms control agreements and confidence building measures between the two militaries have atrophied, said Beebe.
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And I wanted to shrivel that feeling inside of her until it atrophied and died.
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The quality of women's roles, once so rich in the '30s and '40s, has atrophied.
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Kubica, whose right forearm has atrophied, has shown he can drive at the highest level.
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The National Security Council has atrophied under Mr. Trump, and especially during Mr. Bolton's tenure.
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Under Mr Modi, debate about public policy, and especially about communal relations, has atrophied (see article).
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Perhaps people have dropped out of the labor force because their skills and connections have atrophied.
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The inactive older peoples' thymus glands also were atrophied, compared to those of the younger group.
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The domestic terrorism threat has grown clearer as Homeland Security's capacity to address it has atrophied.
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When he autopsied the mice, he was astonished to find atrophied muscles, brittle bones and atherosclerosis.
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Websites list off endless symptoms phrased in the meanest way possible: sagging skin, atrophied vagina, senile ovaries.
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And those things have atrophied because we live in a world in which there are no stories.
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To prevent future disasters, their goal was to strengthen the regulatory oversight that had atrophied over time.
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During the years of implementation of the Agreed Framework, U.S. attention to North Korea's internal instability atrophied.
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Most experts agree that liquidity has atrophied for bonds — especially at times of stress in the market.
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But since admitting in February that he had donned blackface as a student, Mr Northam's fundraising has atrophied.
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For some, the attraction was based on physical attributes: They enjoyed the look of atrophied or amputated limbs.
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Its defensive talent base has atrophied over the past few seasons, undermined by meager drafts and stagnated development.
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At 20, Ms. Waters already had a frosty, atrophied sound — light and diaphanous but also low and worn.
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I THINK THE DOMESTIC AGENDA ATROPHIED BECAUSE WE GOT SO FOCUSED ON TERRORISM, WE GOT SO FOCUSED ON WARS.
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When I took off my wedding rings, my finger had atrophied underneath in a manner that seems excessively symbolic.
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To Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, it is an atrophied public school system and a weak Americans with Disabilities Act.
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I still couldn't walk — my leg muscles had atrophied from the months of falling lung capacity and bed rest.
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It's exactly the sort of smart, targeted government action that may finally spur development in our atrophied regional economies.
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And they didn't have much of a community to support them; domestic women's distance running was fractious and atrophied.
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Years of mismanagement, Mr. Hoffman said, had "essentially atrophied" the start-up and it was always running a deficit.
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European militaries in general have atrophied, with budgets only recently getting out of the red after years of cuts.
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From leaving you uncoordinated after months spent in weightlessness to atrophied muscles, space travel can wreak havoc on you physically.
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It's an undeniable fact that guitar music—at least in its primordial, gobby form—is on its last atrophied legs.
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The production costs of the penny, nickel and dollar note are excessive and reflect an antiquated and atrophied currency system.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Like a stinking dinosaur with an atrophied leg, guitar music stumbles slowly forward.
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The project atrophied for a few years because NASA repeatedly passed over Dream Chaser when handing out commercial resupply contracts.
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These same volunteers' wrist extensor muscles, which had not been exercised in their right wrists, were atrophied on the left.
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Dear Carolyn: My 80-something mother-in-law makes me atrophied with her incessant attention-seeking, hyper-dramatized conversation hijacking.
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During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to rebuild an America that had allegedly atrophied under a disastrous Obama administration.
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The disease shortened my right leg, partially atrophied my calf muscle, limited my ankle's flexibility and curled my foot perceptibly inward.
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The Arctic is fast becoming an increasingly competitive space, and the US Navy is working to strengthen muscles that have atrophied.
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We are in danger of succumbing to the lure of simplistic and dangerous "solutions" touted by powerful people with atrophied empathy.
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Now, investors are keeping a closer eye on inflation after a year in which the economic metric atrophied alongside wage growth.
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But the division, which was absent a clear leader for most of the year, atrophied with her in a key position.
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In recent years, Democratic Party committees have remained robust fundraisers, but they have atrophied as organizational presences in many states and localities.
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My muscles have atrophied and my days of flipping tractor tires have been replaced by my efforts to sit up in bed.
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Recent posts show the dark-colored canine with atrophied muscles taking his first steps with assistance and standing up on his own.
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But under Mr Sharma the organisation is generally thought to have atrophied, especially as a vehicle for upholding democracy and human rights.
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Because Kochevar's muscles had severely atrophied over eight years of dormancy, it took 18 weeks of electrical stimulation to rebuild the muscle.
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" To prepare for his role, Mr. Stallone hired a full-time acting coach, Ivana Chubbuck; his skill set, he said, "had basically atrophied.
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"I don't buy into this idea that I could walk down the street and say, 'That lady's got an atrophied forehead,'" he says.
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While the global platforms have been exploding, making it easier to follow events at a world wide level, local news sources have atrophied.
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McCarthy also conceded to senators that the service's missile defenses have "atrophied a great deal" over the past 18 years of counterinsurgency conflict.
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That's mostly due to my atrocious drawing skills, which I've come to find have atrophied to the point of being nearly non-existent.
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"We are going to have to flex some muscles that may have atrophied," Mr. Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor.
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"We are going to have to flex some muscles that may have atrophied," Mr. Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor.
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Once a world leader, Britain's nuclear industry atrophied after serious accidents in Ukraine and the United States spurred broad resistance to nuclear power.
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"One of my grandchildren has shrapnel wounds on his face, the other has an atrophied leg, they all needed critical care," she added.
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The subsidy bill has since atrophied, while the government has pocketed much of the benefit of falling prices by raising the tax on petrol.
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Indeed, the oversight power of Congress is one of its greatest checks against the executive branch, albeit one that has atrophied and needs reinvigoration.
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In losing office, the GOP also atrophied in most cities, particularly these large cities totaling thirty-five million people or 11% of the population.
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Basically what we are saying is that we want to be Idgy Dean's friends and have her take our winter-atrophied bodies surfing. Please.
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Simply by taking place, the summit further normalized Russia's ties to the outside world, which have atrophied since its annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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And few people have the time and energy to devote to such intelligent creatures, leaving many forgotten behind bars, their limbs and minds atrophied.
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"Many of the skills necessary to plan for and conduct military operations against capable adversaries — especially China and Russia — have atrophied," the report said.
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The taller one, her curly hair cut into a triangular bob, was smoothing a vitamin E rose-scented ointment over the patient's atrophied legs.
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In this music — Southern and ungothic, slow and almost hymnal — you hear dreams passed around between companions, atrophied memories held together in communal trust.
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By 1924, a major textbook described human olfactory bulbs almost as if evolution of higher thought had shrunken them to near useless, atrophied blobs.
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Wright said he was now near the end of a shoulder-exercise program, designed to strengthen small muscles that atrophied after the neck surgery.
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The public wing of the pro-life movement has been focused on judges and legislation for so long that its political imagination has atrophied.
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I was immediately put on a rigorous physical, occupational and speech therapy regimen in order to increase the strength and function of my atrophied muscles.
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Some very wealthy countries in Europe are simply failing to heed Trump's more than legitimate call to begin rebuilding militaries that have atrophied for decades.
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And the Democrats, though emboldened and enchanted by Mr. Jones's victory, are only beginning to rebuild the long-atrophied political muscles they need to compete.
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The number of Democratic statehouses atrophied significantly under his presidency, with 34 Republican governors and 26 states where Republicans control the executive and legislative branches.
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Those capabilities have atrophied since the Cold War, and despite the progress, there&aposs still a lot to do, according to US Air Force Gen.
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At a $450 course in mindfulness-based stress reduction, I learned to befriend painful stretches and breathe new life into atrophied muscles without injuring myself.
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The bear Mr. Nicklen and his team documented was stuck on land, its muscles atrophied by continuing starvation, and apparently on the edge of death.
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In the euphoric interregnum after the fall of Suharto, as atrophied political institutions struggled to create a functional democracy, the group assumed a formal identity.
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But as both parties became more homogeneous, and delegated more power to their leadership in Congress, coalitions became much less fluid, and the committees have atrophied.
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With the naked eye, researchers immediately noticed that his brain had atrophied and was shrunken in the temporal lobe, or front of the brain, she said.
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A human experiencing those conditions — every year for several months at a time — could easily end up with diabetes, obesity, bone loss, atrophied muscles or worse.
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The US Navy&aposs Arctic muscles have atrophied over the years, so the service is working to relearn how to operate in this increasingly competitive space.
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The two relied on low-impact weight training — light dumbbells and resistance bands — to target his atrophied muscles and massage away the lingering hardened scar tissue.
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And with the flourishing of private enterprise, and the collapse of many state-owned firms, the party's once omnipresent and all-powerful cells have atrophied and weakened.
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And so, as I mentioned before, I think it's really unlikely that we're going to see people with atrophied hippocampus as a result of the new technology.
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I suddenly pictured the atrophied blob of a human I would become after months in bed, barely able to muster the strength required to care for a newborn.
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While the sporting goods chain doesn't suffer the same "symptoms of the disease" that his competitors "atrophied from and died," that doesn't mean it can sit idly by.
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It's inextricable from the idea, now atrophied, of an improvable world in which certain inalienable rights exist and certain forms of evil — those bestial camps — must be confronted.
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The group's ability to orchestrate or attack targets in the West has atrophied in recent years, as American airstrikes have targeted their bomb-makers and English-language propagandists.
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After five years of weekly testosterone injections, the canal (I can't stand calling it a vagina, much less referring to it as "my") had atrophied to near nonexistence.
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Once considered a potential successor to Nelson Mandela, investors are counting on Ramaphosa to use his clout to restore political and fiscal stability – which had atrophied under Zuma.
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But a world without them is unimaginable, as markets provide goods and services that were once rights (healthcare, mobility, security, etc.) owed to citizens of now-atrophied welfare states.
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The campaign to chair the DNC has revived tensions between wings of the party, and forced Democrats to use outreach and organizing muscles that atrophied during the Obama years.
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For decades, the battle lines of economic policy—more or less taxation; a bigger or smaller welfare state—seemed deeply entrenched, while the language of politics narrowed and atrophied.
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We increase the size of our atrophied muscle fibers with exercise but, for a variety of physiological reasons, do not add to the number of fibers, Dr. Bamman says.
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They've just grown atrophied through lack of rigorous use, like an immune system that hasn't been under a direct attack in so long it can't respond to an infection.
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A lock-kneed stance from which he loosely bobbled his head: the familiar posture of a boxer whose knees have long since atrophied but whose creditors still need placating.
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It's a 95% white, economically atrophied spot on the rust belt where Talbott helps tend to the cows, a couple dozen chickens, and a passel of cats in the barn.
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On his watch, the country's health care system has atrophied so severely that scores of Venezuelans are dying every week because of chronic shortages of medicine and ill-equipped hospitals.
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But she learned to live with my limitations — those caused by my atrophied muscles, my respiratory distresses and myriad external obstacles and attitudes — through real-world, on-the-job training.
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In studies using animals (five rats in the initial one), Dr. McEwen and his colleagues demonstrated that toxic stress atrophied neurons near the hippocampus, the brain's memory and learning center.
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Instead of taking a long look in the mirror after its Soviet foe dissolved, and then redefine itself for the post-Cold War world, the European side of the alliance atrophied.
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Perhaps more important is our increased rotational presence in Eastern Europe and larger-scale and more-complex NATO exercises, which have allowed our forces to practice employing long-atrophied military capabilities.
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Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesThe US military is currently conducting a massive sealift stress test during which ships will flex atrophied muscles needed to fight a great power conflict.
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His arm remains atrophied, leading to fears about his ability to cope with racing situations and tight, twisty circuits, but he said that was not the major obstacle some might suspect.
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Our concept of "common sense" gun reform—not to be mistaken for politically viable gun reform—has atrophied even as spectacular violence has become a more constant feature of our lives.
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She arrived on the red-eye and was visibly appalled at Justin's appearance — he'd gone from ruggedly handsome and athletic to emaciated and atrophied, his hair snarled, his nails gnarly and dirty.
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That kind of hunger seems to have vanished from Fedor with his continued success outside of the cage and his skills have atrophied as those of any forty year old fighter will.
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But the episode made clear that for Clinton, a major political task will be repairing the atrophied DNC -- fulfilling her promise to focus on party-building in a way Obama never has.
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But he atrophied at Bayern, never quite fitting into the false 183 role under Pep Guardiola and losing out to regular 9 Robert Lewandowski, playing a mere 14 league games last seasons.
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The lack of pools in good condition, combined with an atrophied public transportation network and the dominance of other sports — especially soccer — has the city lagging behind the rest of the country.
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Social interaction was so rare that after weeks alone in my writing shed, my ability to regulate conversation atrophied: A friendly question in the post office would elicit a three-minute response.
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I liken it to an atrophied muscle that hasn't worked in a long time — it's a little cranky getting it going, but it's a way for Congress to stand up for itself.
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For all the genuine strides his regime made in offering free education, medical care, housing and resources for the Cuban people, Castro's authoritarian rule atrophied a once-promising revolution into a virtual dictatorship.
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State budgets atrophied State and local tax revenues took a massive hit during the recession and were only partially backfilled by federal grants, forcing widespread layoffs that weakened all manner of public services.
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Kaitlyn has to go pick up Lizzie's head, but it's sort of hard because she's aged 70 years in the time she's been watching The Emoji Movie, and all her muscles have atrophied.
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"The chiefs themselves, and their military staffs, will need to sharpen this skill set, which in places has atrophied over the years, to be successful in discharging their new acquisition responsibilities" Carter said.
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But in the past several months, as the press briefing atrophied and then disappeared, a Washington mystery emerged: What was the press secretary doing all day if she was not briefing the press?
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In Mexico, in contrast, institutions of checks and balances have atrophied as a result of exploding crime and self-serving politicians, including presidents, who have politicized institutions to protect themselves from corruption investigations.
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The authors wrote that they had seen some men who were previously fertile and had blast injuries that appeared to leave the testicles unharmed, but whose testicles later atrophied and stopped making sperm.
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The show really does threaten to become a tragedy as we realize with each step, with each episode, with each season, Jimmy McGill comes closer to being this calcified, morally atrophied Saul Goodman character.
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As of yet, the part of our gray matter that remembers phone numbers and directions hasn't completely atrophied—believe it or not, it is actually possible to survive and even reproduce without an iPhone.
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Maybe the failures of sort of an atrophied political system are all around them, but the simple fact is that almost most Americans -- certainly huge chunks of most Americans are in the global 1 percent.
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First, I think it's a good time to reinvigorate the State Department's arms control efforts, particularly by beefing up the department's personnel and resources assigned to this mission, all of which have atrophied of late.
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Intent on reviving and expanding New York's atrophied hostel business — which they say could enhance the city's appeal to youthful tourists — the visitors were sizing up thousands of square feet of commercial space and warehouses.
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His service in World War II, when, unlike Joe DiMaggio, he had a military occupation (in an engineers unit) rather than a spot on a service ballclub, atrophied his skills and Irvin asked Rickey to wait.
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While Nicky stews over Bridget's favored-child status and Bert's refusal to respect his bar-owning career choice, Bridget chafes over her atrophied marriage and a whiny daughter (Taissa Farmiga) who's having second thoughts about college.
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These obstacles would present issues for any peacetime mobilization effort and led NATO to conclude in a 2017 internal report that its ability to rapidly deploy around Europe had "atrophied since the end of the Cold War."
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During that time period, she was also suffering physically, having lost her voice; nerves connected to her vocal cords atrophied, a side effect of Lyme disease, which she'd had since a tick bite on the "Up!" tour.
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This comes, though, after eight years of many Democratic leaders complaining that Obama never seemed committed to or interested in electing down-ballot Democrats, and as his White House systematically atrophied the Democratic National Committee party apparatus.
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Fidyka, who is six feet tall and weighed a hundred and seventy-two pounds before his injury, remains muscular above the waist, and his frame is large enough so that even his paralyzed lower parts don't seem atrophied.
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And because our capacity for presence has atrophied in the age of multitasking—we typically allocate a morsel of our attention to a given moment, rarely the full self—the decision to be mindfully present felt revolutionary to me.
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In the first year of a Republican-led government, the result has been an atrophied body in the Senate with purview over the pillars of Trump's agenda, a reality that has already had major implications for millions of Americans.
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Communism, a system intended to achieve optimal equality, becomes atrophied by self-professed demigods (Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, Kim Jong-un, or Marx himself); religion, a promised means toward immaterial fulfillment, gets bogged down in pageantry and material riches.
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Should we continue to live in a hypnotizing cycle of false expectations, celebrating only the most vague and atrophied impulses of a primeval herd instinct, our sole remaining national ambition will be to stay one step ahead of catastrophe.
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" He surmised that Communism, by controlling every aspect of people's lives, had infantilized generations of Chinese: "People's sense of themselves as individuals atrophied, so much so that they lost commonsense ideas of how to behave ethically without strict parameters.
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She stood in the dark and put a PowerPoint presentation on the screen, several dozen slides of images showing an immensely atrophied young brain, the mind of a former star in his field who was also a convicted murderer.
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According to researchers in Texas, when the pythons get around to feeding again, their atrophied major organs increase in mass by 40 to 100 percent to prepare for digestion—apparently it takes a lot to swallow a mouse whole.
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While the conversion therapy movement atrophied in the US, American evangelical leaders found fertile ground in pushing their discredited pray-the-gay-away creed abroad, and Exodus Global Alliance remains a formidable force across Latin America and Africa in particular.
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There are interesting confessions (an aborted beef with Lil Wayne among them), but his writing and once-chameleonic technical abilities had atrophied: he was rapping in shouted, stilted cadences and writing clunky biography full of groaning puns and scatalogical nonsense.
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But for once, a weekly schedule seems better: Spend more than half an hour in the biting, largely nasty world of Julie and Billy (the creator, Julie Klausner, and Billy Eichner) and you'll start to feel like your heart has atrophied.
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This is just a small taste of the lunacy that arises from patent trolling, a problem that has atrophied to the point that the EFF assigned a special chair for someone who is solely tasked with getting rid of stupid patents.
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Top operatives take Axios readers behind the curtain: During Pompeo's visits with senators, he acknowledged the department had atrophied under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and said he'll move to fill top positions and restore the department's relevance at home and abroad.
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The zero-tolerance border policy that left more than 2,300 children separated from their parents — a policy Trump has now rescinded after coming under enormous pressure — had broad backing until children's desperate cries delivered what no atrophied Republican conscience could summon: moral revulsion.
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Like crossing the Atlantic, getting around Europe isn't new, but doing so now will test skills that haven't been used much in the years after the Cold War, when the US presence in Europe dwindled and NATO's ability to rapidly deploy atrophied.
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Multiple medical officials, an administrative law judge and the Iowa Department of Human Services director all agree she needs the customized $4,200 wheelchair that helps her move her chair and sit at an angle so her atrophied muscles don't cause her to choke or fall out.
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Similarly, Russia's programs atrophied at the end of the cold war but there's now "evidence that they're reconstituting them, and China is building its space capabilities, both offensive and defensive (from) reconnaissance satellites, communication satellites (and) evidence that it's building ground launched anti-satellite missiles," said Weeden.
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" At the Washington Post, Megan McArdle wrote that "Jarrar has behaved like an ill-bred adolescent with an underdeveloped vocabulary, an overdeveloped ego and an entirely atrophied sense of empathy" but that "Fresno State is wrong to investigate her private speech, and conservatives who are tempted to support the school should think again.
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Experts, while noting that the Russian submarine fleet is much smaller that the Soviet Union's was during the 1980s, have said that the U.S. Navy was particularly concerned about the renewed Russian actions due to the fact that the U.S. and allied anti-submarine warfare capabilities have atrophied since the end of the Cold War.
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" In the opening to his 20183 guidebook for composers, "Simple Composition," Mr. Wuorinen wrote: "While the tonal system, in an atrophied or vestigial form, is still used today in popular and commercial music, and even occasionally in the works of backward-looking serious composers, it is no longer employed by serious composers of the mainstream.
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Given the depths of dysfunction and gridlock, it's time now for Congress to create a new Joint Committee that could address filibuster abuse, which is far from the only problem plaguing Congress: The broken budget process, an atrophied committee system, and insufficient personnel and resources are just a few more of the pressing issues.
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Today, you can legally strap into an Electric Muscle Stimulation suit which delivers electric pulses to the muscles, making them bulk up more while you work out; while studies have shown that short-term use of electric stimulation on atrophied muscles can prevent the loss of muscle mass, it's generally found that it does not preserve or increase strength.
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Holding tight to George McGovern's old campaign slogan, "Come Home, America," they invoked it more as prayer than policy, while their opposition to war atrophied to two main reflexes, either a call to "nation-build at home" (to spend money—which would be wasted on militarism—on hospitals, schools, and bridges), or a warning about blowback (that the effects of intervention will be worse than the benefits).
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While his studies demonstrated, as the obituary correctly stated, that toxic stress atrophied neurons near the hippocampus, the brain's memory and learning center, his research did not demonstrate that stress expanded neurons near the amygdala, the area of the brain that promotes vigilance toward threats; that discovery was made by others, including former collaborators with Dr. McEwen, although his laid the foundation for it.
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The artist, in The Official Museo Salinas Guide, provides the following reasoning for this work: […] considering the torpid state of Mexican museums — immersed in a colonized and elitist agenda, with an atrophied bureaucratic corps, and fearful of confronting the smallest figment of reality — I decided that it would be a healthy and necessary act to preserve these original testimonies of contemporary Mexican history in the space of a museum: I wanted to 'activate' these objects.
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It was a body for whom the muscle of consensus-building had atrophied, a deterioration that led them to regard John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE, the speaker who banished earmarks and erased the discretionary spending legacy of President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 85033,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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