The phrase "a heightened response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increased or intensified reaction to a stimulus or situation.
Example: "The patient's condition resulted in a heightened response to the medication, indicating its effectiveness."
Alternatives: "an increased reaction" or "an amplified response".
Adolescents seek social engagement and interaction with their peers and they have a heightened response to emotion.
The data recorded by these showed a heightened response in the temporo-parietal and frontal regions of the volunteer's brains, compared to control conditions.
"Isn't this cozy!" She had a tinkling laugh, which, while it did not seem entirely genuine, had a musicality that caused the hearer to join her in a heightened response, like a painting that one knows to be good, although one is unmoved by it.
By contrast, L-methionine increased the level of methylation and thus reduced the expression of the gene in animals with loving mothers, and led to fear, anxiety and a heightened response to stress.Marked for lifeDr Szyf and Dr Meaney have made a strong case that different epigenetic profiles resulting from early experience correlate with behavioural differences in adults in rats at least.
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Those with fragmented, disordered sleep, experience a heightened response to painful stimuli.
This theory has recently been suggested by Wadia et al. (2007), who showed that ovariectomized CD-1 mice prenatally exposed to BPA displayed a significantly heightened response in the mammary gland after an estrogenic stimulus.
And it seems right and even dignified that this object of desire evoke a more heightened response, one out of favor with marketers of "aspirational" luxury.
MetS pigs demonstrated higher platelet aggregation in response to collagen than lean pigs (area under the curve: 286 ± 74 vs 198 ± 123; P = 0.037) and a trend for heightened response to AA (AUC: 260 ± 151 vs 178 ± 145; P = 0.13).
Rats exposed to chronic EMS exhibited hypoactivity, increased stereotypic behavior, abnormal anxiety behavior, abnormal HPA axis functioning, and heightened response to an acute stressor and an elevated acoustic startle response in adulthood (Caldji et al. 2000b; Huot et al. 2001; Kalinichev et al. 2002; Ladd et al. 2000, 2004; Lippmann et al. 2007; McIntosh et al. 1999; Wigger and Neumann 1999).
Specifically, we found that rapamycin blunted the heightened response to mechanical stimulation that develops around a site of injury and reduced the long-term mechanical hypersensitivity that follows partial peripheral nerve damage - a widely used model of chronic pain.
