Standing back, Brown contemplates the mystery of his son, which contains other mysteries — for instance, do people like Walker improve evolution by testing our sympathetic capacities, thus moving us toward a survival of the weakest?
Balzac had exceptional powers of observation and a photographic memory, but he also had a sympathetic, intuitive capacity to understand and describe other people's attitudes, feelings, and motivations.
The address came before a largely sympathetic audience: a capacity crowd of about 250 students and faculty members at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St . Anselm College
Contemporaneously with diminishing sympathetic tone, functional capacity measured by 6MHW distance increased significantly at 3 and 6 months, with an average increase of ∼50 m.
Golding talks of kinaesthesia, the capacity for sympathetic identification with someone else's bodily movements; there is a sense in which The Inheritors seems like an exercise in fictional kinaesthesia, with its author trying to slip not just into a Neanderthal skin, but also into one of those unimaginable minds.
But, as with McDermott's other books, its satisfactions lie not so much in its story as in its language, which is glorious, and in McDermott's capacity for sympathetic imagination with the inhabitants of the world onto which she opens a window.
Neuroblastoma cells have a remarkably retained capacity for sympathetic differentiation, both on the basis of histological analysis and clinically through well-documented complete remissions due to spontaneous maturation of residual tumor tissue.
While an absolute determination of myocardial washout of I-MIBG would undoubtedly be a reflection of the capacity of sympathetic neurons to retain the neurotransmitter NE, the accuracy of the calculation method in common use for quantifying this phenomenon is uncertain.
However, patients with sympathetic failure lack this buffering capacity, and MAP is largely dependent on cardiac preload and CO.
The main findings of the current study are that patients with type 2 diabetes and intact endothelial function have a similar capacity to blunt sympathetic vasoconstriction during moderate exercise as healthy age- and BMI-matched control subjects.
