disinhibition

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To explore the alternative theory of more cross talk (disinhibition) between brain areas in synesthetes, Cohen Kadosh and colleagues used posthypnotic suggestion to show that people who are not synesthetes can be induced to have synesthetic experiences.

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  1. noun Loss of inhibition, as through the influence of external stimuli such as drugs or alcohol, or as a result of brain damage.
  2. noun Unrestrained behavior resulting from a lessening or loss of inhibitions or a disregard of cultural constraints.

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  • The implications for treatment of tinnitus are that disinhibition and cortical remapping following injury at the receptor level, the analog for tinnitus being the 'phantom limb pain' phenomenon. —  Products & Shopping
  • Factor analysis with mean scores of rating scales for the age of 12-30 months yielded three factors: positive affectivity, negative affectivity, and disinhibition. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Only child disinhibition showed to be significant predictor of adult personality characteristics: disinhibition is connected to extraversion and generalized self-efficacy. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The finding that the child disinhibition holds - as the only one —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • One of the most troubling, common, and little discussed, outside of backroom medical meetings, side effects of psych meds used in such a large portion of the American population today is, sexual disinhibition in females, and violent disinhibition in males. —  altmuslim
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