Desensitization in a sentence

Receptor desensitization Desensitization of the postsynaptic receptors is a decrease in response to the same neurotransmitter stimulus.

It seems that the general public has gone through a kind of systematic desensitization to the issue.

Lecturer in Law and Justice Todd Mildon said that he thinks the reason for desensitization is how accessible information is on social media.

Even within this culture of desensitization, there are still certain events that trigger an emotional response.

While tolerance is characterized by desensitization of neural pain pathways, which can be overcome by higher doses, opioid-induced hyperalgesia is the result of hypersensitization of those pathways, she says.

Alternative medicine An experimental treatment, enzyme potentiated desensitization (EPD), has been tried for decades but is not generally accepted as effective.

At some extent, terrorists appeal to jolt the society, however, the gradual process of desensitization the western audience experiences.

Barber et al. noted that similar factors appeared to mediate the response both to hypnotism and to cognitive behavioural therapy, in particular systematic desensitization.

Desensitization A method to reduce or stop an allergic reaction to something.

Domoic acid has a very strong affinity for these receptors, which results in excitotoxicity initiated by an integrative action on ionotropic glutamate receptors at both sides of the synapse blocking the channel from rapid desensitization.

For an analysis of desensitization in the system pictured, see citation In feedback amplifiers, this correction is generally for waveform distortion reduction or to establish a specified gain level.

Further unease has been caused around cameras in regards to desensitization.

Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy can be used alone and in conjunction with systematic desensitization to treatment phobias. citation Hypnotherapy can help people with phobias, resolve their issue, by uncovering the underlying cause of the phobia.

If a person is allergic, ceftriaxone may be used or penicillin desensitization attempted.

Note 3: A duplexer must provide sufficient isolation to prevent receiver desensitization.

Surgeons and nurses often wear gowns colored cyan, and operating rooms are often painted that color, because it is the complement of red and thus reduces the desensitization to red that occurs when working on blood red internal organs.

Systematic desensitization can be done in vivo (with live spiders) or by getting the individual to imagine situations involving spiders, then modelling interaction with spiders for the person affected and eventually interacting with real spiders.

To Johnny, Mr. Samsa represents complete desensitization and unemotional thinking, a state for which Johnny begins a quest at the end of the series.

Traditional systematic desensitization involves a person being exposed to the object they are afraid of over time, so that the fear and discomfort do not become overwhelming.

Virtual reality therapy is a type of therapy that helps patients imagine scenes with the phobic object, like systematic desensitization therapy.