And while acknowledging that students who study abroad are often a fearless lot, Dr. Scheid said the increase was at least partly driven by students' heightened desire to learn more about the world around them.
It is possible in our study that enhanced GPi activity to angry faces in VSTM might reflect heightened attention to angry faces, driven by the saliency of potential threat.
Like so many others driven to panic by the heightened terrorist alert, I stocked up on water (there were only three gallons left on the shelf at my local Stop & Shop and I took two, feeling slightly guilty) and laid in a store of nonperishables, including mini-cereal boxes of the ultra-sweetened variety that are normally forbidden in our house.
Deforestation and agricultural intensification also heightens malaria risk while ocean warming, driven by the vast amounts of heat being sucked up by the oceans, can cause toxic algal blooms that can lead to infections in humans.
This served to heighten the "war fever" developing against Spain, which was also driven by the British desire for commercial and military domination of the Atlantic basin.
Winning teams are driven by the players.
Heightened ability to overcome sleepiness, which may be driven by heightening cortical availability for accelerating cognitive performance [3], [4], enables them to do such assignments more accurately or quickly [5].
Now, driven by mounting fuel costs, heightened sensitivities to climate change, and rising worries over indoor air quality, the race is on to reform housing for better environmental performance.
This finding is consistent with previous reports demonstrating that activity in the visual cortex is particularly robust during the presentation of emotionally arousing visual stimuli, perhaps due to re-entrant enhancement of V2 activity being driven by motivational processes that heighten input from the amygdala.
