arousal

Children who had taken stimulants showed stronger activity in brain regions associated with arousal and wakefulness, as well as areas involved in predicting how rewarding an activity might be.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025

The two prefrontal regions also carried information about arousal and a small amount of visual detail to MOp.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025

As a therapist, I know that for children with autism, water offers resistance, pressure and pleasant sensory arousal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Emotional responses and physiological arousal, measured through skin conductance, were not significant predictors of feedback-seeking behavior, suggesting that these factors may not play as large of a role in shaping decisions to seek performance feedback.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

He clearly played basketball in that same optimal range of arousal in which Ron Avery performed.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

“Because they have low arousals, they are less protected from any hypoxic event—a shortage of oxygen.”

From Scientific American ● May 1, 2018

In a new Science Advances paper Bartsch proposes an innovative hypothesis that spontaneous arousals are due to random electrical activity in a specific set of neurons in the brain—aptly named the wake-promoting neurons.

From Scientific American ● May 1, 2018

In a stark departure from Freudian orthodoxy, Solms argues that what Freud said constituted the id — arousals, instincts and drives — are instead conscious states, readily accessible to observation.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2015

Breathing stoppages literally suction up your stomach juices into your throat, causing more swelling and inflammation, causing more obstructions and arousals.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2010

Confusional arousals: People may be agitated, aggressive and unable to waken fully, talk clearly or respond to questions.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2010