hyperexcitability
I've got a bucket of water ready in case the excitability over his arrival gets out of control.
Caffeinated drinks and asthma drugs taken together can cause excessive excitability.
The patient will usually experience severe anxiety during the attack, and a period of excitability and confusion can follow.
These cells act to decrease the excitability of the cortical neurones.
The drug reduces the excitability of cardiac muscle and promotes coronary circulation.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming too excited and easily upset
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hysterics
lather
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overeagerness
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Physical & chemical processes

Examples of excitability

excitability
Excitability changes induced in the human motor cortex by weak transcranial direct current stimulation.
Unfortunately, current treatments that focus mostly on targeting neuronal excitability and transmission are not effective.
Continuous transcranial magnetic stimulation during positron emission tomography : a suitable tool for imaging regional excitability of the human cortex.
As suggested above, the indirect spinal action of anesthetics might 'reset' the arousal level of the brain by reducing the excitability of reticulo-thalamo-cortical arousal mechanisms.
This reveals the presence of a tonic regulation of neuronal excitability by taurine in normally hydrated rats.
Left dorso-lateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation affects cortical excitability and functional connectivity, but does not impair cognition in major depression.
The neuromuscular excitability depends on resting membrane and threshold potentials.
This increased excitability is unrestrained by inhibitory processes.
Nearly all of 26 patients reported 'complete' improvement of insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, excitability, depression and headaches, as well as offlushingand sweating.
Little is known about the combined effect of different dynamic mechanisms that modulate excitability.
We concluded that activity-dependent modulation of intrinsic excitability can mediate slow patterning of sustained neural oscillations.
There is an increase in the amplitude and excitability of responses with increasing per fusion times.
This decrease in the response amplitude occurred after an initial period of increased excitability.
It also allows a comparison of the dynamic cell distribution patterns in dependence of their relative excitability and dispersion parameter as a function of density.
We assume, but have not proven, that these four groups of children inherit different profiles of limbic excitability which are based on different neurochemistries.
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