stimulation
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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
Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus is already an established therapy for easing motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
She argued that once a threshold of basic safety, nutrition, love, and stimulation was met, the particular details of the style had a very small effect on a child’s personality or intelligence.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Among healthy participants, NEUSLeeP stimulation also increased heart rate variability, which is commonly used as an indicator of the body's ability to respond to stress.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Then, as the stimulation of the last several hours had made further work that day impossible, Francis and I went over to the Eagle.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
That device sends mild electrical stimulations through the vagus nerve to the brain, sparking a release of chemicals like serotonin and dopamine which help us regulate our mood.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
It turned out that both were equally as sensitive to the strong stimulations.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023
These electric stimulations mimicked the mechanical stimuli of a collision.
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
There were times when he wrote better surrounded by the stimulations of the office; when he was neither fagged nor disturbed he worked at home.
From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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