arousal

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Stimulant medications affect arousal and reward, not attention networks.

From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025

They found that ACA and ORB exerted specific and opposing effects on visual encoding depending on the mouse's movement and level of arousal.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

ACA activity also tracked closely with arousal level, while ORB responded only when arousal reached a high threshold.

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

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

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell