stimulation
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The new study found that this stimulation weakens the macrophages' ability to engulf neutrophils.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Once they understood why they found certain situations challenging, it was easier to give themselves permission for things like rest and breaks from sensory stimulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Smaller neurons tend to respond more easily to stimulation, making them more likely to fire excessively.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The friends are passingly concerned that they’ve outsourced too much of their mental stimulation to the internet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
She missed her activist friends and the cultural stimulation of the city.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Electrical stimulations are important first steps towards the team's bigger goal of triggering learning in the biocomputer's neurons so they can eventually adapt to perform tasks.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
It turned out that both were equally as sensitive to the strong stimulations.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023
Scientists demonstrated that the jellies could acquire the ability to avoid obstacles through associative learning, a process through which organisms form mental connections between sensory stimulations and behaviors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
Knowing where to direct brain stimulations also does not resolve the question of what frequency to use, scientists said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
But when the normal tasks and stimulations of life don't put a man's deeper levels of energy on tap, and he requires distinctly deleterious excitements, his constitution verges on the abnormal.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
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