It provides relief by blocking pain signals travelling between the nerves and the brain and can induce a feeling of euphoria.

Endorphins from working out also induce a feeling of wellbeing.

Sadly, times2's report today induces the feeling that humanity's freedom to choose has been an illusion.

It also induces a feeling similar to that of being drunk.

This was a significant achievement and revolutionised our understanding of the ways in which ionising radiations caused chromosome breakage and induced mutations.

Such modification induces mutations, which are cytotoxic and carcinogenic.

Like many phage viruses, it has been used in molecular biology to induce mutations in cultured bacteria and to introduce foreign genetic material.

For example, irradiation may be used (e.g. xrays, gamma rays) to induce mutations that may give rise to plants with new characteristics.

Treatments which induced mutations were also used.

This transorbital lobotomy method did not require a neurosurgeon and could be performed outside of an operating room without the use of anesthesia by using electroconvulsive therapy to induce seizure.

He induced seizures, by using pentetrazol, as a way to reduce depression.

He said that electrically induced seizures were cheaper and easier to administer than cardiazol seizures.

He was able to induce seizures in about 1/3 the first subjects.

Abruptly discontinuing butalbital, for example, can actually induce seizures in some patients, although simple over the counter analgesics can safely be stopped by the patient without medical supervision.

It's an intensive form of yoga that combines movement and breathing exercises with the chanting of mantras to induce a state of total relaxation.

It probably won't infiltrate your dreams or induce a state of childlike reverie, but it may make you consider buying a new mattress.

Through practice, though, dedicated lucid dreamers are able to induce that state and hold it at will.

Tonight's episode goes beyond laughter to induce a state of pure happiness.

These techniques apparently induce a state of footloose drifting in which meaningful encounters, otherworldly experiences and heightened faculties may be expected.

Indeed, it became for some of those who flaunted their quasi-criminal credentials a badge of honour that they hoped would induce fear and 'respect' among their victims.

Or they can inherit an induced fear of the smell of cherries.

Not by bellowing at journalists or inducing fear with that infamous glare.

The destabilisation of knowledge caused by digitalisation may induce fear, but analog photography also caused people to be afraid: in the first photographs, we saw phantoms.

The rhetoric of this ultra-royalist vigilante group has induced fear of a potential witch-hunt on dissenters.

Even standing on a four-foot platform in lineout training can induce nausea.

The anticipated path could induce nausea.

That's full of sea and has the ability to induce nausea from a distance of a thousand yards.

He was told to avoid the rink because the sight could induce nausea.

Ammonium salts are an irritant to the gastric mucosa and may induce nausea and vomiting.

This can induce panic reactions prior to or during the act of swallowing.

The surgeon's prompt insistence that he needed to conduct an exploratory operation induced panic.

The owner, a graduate student, was initially charged with inducing panic, a misdemeanor.

This new change in diplomatic relations induced panic among the leaders of the surrounding nations, as they feared a similar defeat.

Other studies have suggested that the sound of birdsong or the smell of freshly-cut grass can induce relaxation.

It represents the general use of music to reduce stress, depression, or anxiety; induce relaxation or sleep; activate the body; and improve memory or awareness.

If you reach climax, you then release oxytocin, a natural hormone that induces relaxation and sleep.

Conversely, eating carbohydrates boosts serotonin in the brain, which induces relaxation, which makes you want to sleep through your morning meetings.

On the other hand, prostacyclin therapy prolongs survival by inducing relaxation of vascular smooth muscles.

Apparently, this form of therapy slows brainwave activity, which can induce sleep.

Historically the setting of the sun was the signal for levels of the hormone melatonin to rise and induce sleep.

They may be added to tea to help induce sleep.

He can also induce sleep and waking dreams by blowing sand on people.

For example, certain combinations of frequencies appeared to enhance alertness; others to induce sleep; and still others to evoke expanded states of consciousness.

No, that again could induce stress.

For plants, the warmer temperatures induce stress on the plants.

However, prevention methods, such as vaccination, can also induce stress because of the extra handling and injection.

The cheetah's nervousness after a hunt may induce stress hyperthermia, which involves high sympathetic nervous activity and raises the body temperature.

The person then falls on the cord again, inducing stress in the cord.

For many, it seems to induce symptoms of bereavement: shock, denial and anger, with the last emotion creating social havoc.

Therefore, asthmatics should be aware of the possibility that meadowsweet, with its similar biochemistry, will also induce symptoms of asthma.

Signs and symptoms only occur after severe narrowing or closure impedes blood flow to different organs enough to induce symptoms.

Some patients also indicate that specific foods are able to induce symptoms of paramyotonia congenita.