It is of clinical interest to maintain patient comfort in the ICU and yet preserve their intellectual function, arousal and interaction.
Sooner or later, anyone seeking intellectual or physical arousal wants to see something he's not supposed to see.
The Congress for Cultural Freedom whose intellectual and political arousals he envied was started in West Berlin in 1950 to counter and discredit pro-Communist intellectual gatherings in New York, but the CCF was soon exposed in the New York Times as a project established and funded significantly by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Cognitive theories of learning also assume that the complete act of thought follows a fairly common sequence, as follows: arousal of intellectual interest; preliminary exploration of the problem; formulation of ideas, explanations, or hypotheses; selection of appropriate ideas; and verification of their suitability.
Peter Debruge, chief international film critic at Variety, also is of the mind that "the only arousal von Trier intends is of the intellectual variety".
It becomes part of a pattern of seduction: not arousal because of violence but arousal because of intellectual as well as erotic engagement.
Developmental nicotine exposure (DNE) is associated with increased risk of cardiorespiratory, intellectual, and behavioral abnormalities in neonates, and is a risk factor for apnea of prematurity, altered arousal responses and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Many concede that pornography-by which they usually mean sexually explicit material whose primary function is to produce sexual arousal in viewers-is "low value" speech: speech that contributes little, if anything, of intellectual, artistic, literary or political merit to the moral and social environment.
Their arousal signs fell.
(Players earn "arousal points").
