"The heightened response led to them being more likely to get the next trial correct, too.
It can lead to the kind of heightened response of pure pleasure described above.
These findings correlated with a heightened response to acute hypoxia and failure to vasodilate with nitric oxide or oxygen.
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.
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.
Esophageal acid has the potential to prime the respiratory system so that when asthmatics are exposed to another asthma trigger, they have a heightened response.
At the same time, this heightened response has led to a series of high-profile lawsuits by accused students who assert that they were falsely accused or subjected to mishandled investigations that lacked sufficient due process protections.
Although preliminary, our assertion that this interference is protective is substantiated by the heightened response to applied force in people with back pain and stiffness – they overestimate applied force magnitude but are more sensitive to detecting change.
Keep in mind that having one type of reaction doesn't mean you'll have the same reaction every time; however, if you've been stung by a certain species of bee in the past and are stung again by the same species, a heightened response may occur.
"The same part of the brain that responds to fearful situations, such as seeing a spider or snake, also shows a heightened response in children with high math anxiety," said Vinod Menon, PhD, the Stanford professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences who led the research.
