His campaign for a more civilised society has raised social and political awareness; it has heightened sensitivity to the abuse of human rights.
There are theories on the table ranging from environmental lead pollution to more effective policing and crime prevention technology, or the acceptability of physical punishment and our growing sensitivity to child abuse.
Mutations in key clock genes disrupt overt circadian rhythms and have been associated with phenotypes such as obesity, decreased longevity, increased sensitivity to substances of abuse, depression and other cognitive impairments [1], [3], [7].
Interventions that can heighten sensitivity to recognition of abuse, through a lowering of risk threshold could be expected to lead to a more appropriate, heightened action response.
Exposure to BPA affects nervous system function with chronic exposure leading to an increase in dopamine D1 receptor expression in mouse limbic forebrain, which can result in hyperactivity, attention deficits and heightened sensitivity to drugs of abuse [ 8, 9].
Substrains of the Spontaneously Hypertensive rat (SHR), a putative animal model of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), have demonstrated increased sensitivity to many drugs of abuse, including psychostimulants.
Not only did I develop a greater sensitivity to people who've been abused, I've put my money where my mouth is.
And his sensitivity to the uses and abuses of language is highly apparent in several pencil-on-graph-paper drawings of text messages, most of which have calamitous subtexts.
Lines in the play about the nasty patriarch having "tucked up" his sons in bed each night, and a reference to the "fun" that they used to have in the bath, have tended to be inflected in recent productions by our current sensitivity to the possibility of child abuse.
Another effect of this process was raising societal sensitivity to the problem of child sexual abuse.
