(n.) The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(3) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(4) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(5) The data support a hypothesis that medial thalamic structures have alerting functions in learning mechanisms.
(6) The correlation between the spike activity and the waves of surface ECoG was studied in the visual and motor cortex of alert non-immobilized rabbits.
(7) The specific angiotensin receptor antagonist, Sar1, Thr8AII (sarthran), was infused intracerebroventricularly in alert spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and Sprague-Dawley (SD) normotensive rat strains.
(8) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(9) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
(10) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
(11) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
(12) This report alerts clinicians that, although helpful in some patients, clonazepam can cause behavioral disinhibition and worsening of symptoms in other patients.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
(15) Immediately after delivery the following should be checked for any possible abnormalities: 1) the patient's alertness, 2) blood pressure, 3) pulse, and 4) body temperature.
(16) The results better define the important behavioral differences existing between the two strains, Long Evans rats showing consistently a higher level of alertness and a better conditioned performance.
(17) This article is intended to alert practicing physicians to the extent of the problem and to familiarize them with the various forms of skin cancer.
(18) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.
(19) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(20) It was thus found that the predictive efficacy of CASE was increased when it employed a combination of human and artificial intelligence, as exemplified by the CASE analysis of 'structural alerts.
Psychostimulant
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tricyclic antidepressants are often associated with adverse drug reactions in the elderly, so alternatives such as MAO inhibitors, alprazolam, bupropion and psychostimulants are currently being explored in this patient population.
(2) CEEG profiles of LHM in low dosages (less than or equal to 10 mcg) are similar to CNS "inhibitory" compounds, while in higher dosages (25 mcg to 100 mcg) they resemble "psychostimulant" compounds.
(3) Its application was characterized by a faster onset of the therapeutic effect and a peculiar mild psychostimulating action, primarily manifested in the impact on obligate manifestations of the asthenic disorders.
(4) This effect appeared unrelated to their effect on depression although a differential effect of the two psychostimulants on anxiety was observed.
(5) Considerations pertaining to treatment with heterocyclic drugs, MAOIs, lithium, psychostimulants and thyroid hormone, as well as ECT, have been reviewed.
(6) A quantitative pharmaco-EEG analysis of the action of psychostimulant drug sydnocarb and its solvent polyethylenglycol-400 on bioelectrical activity of sensomotor cortex, dorsal hippocamp and lateral hypothalamus of wakeful rats in free behavior was carried out.
(7) The reinforcing properties of amfonelic acid, a nonamphetamine psychostimulant, were evaluated in an intravenous self-administration paradigm.
(8) The computer EEG (CEEG) profiles of both formulations are not only very similar to each other, but also resemble the CEEG profiles of psychostimulant compounds (Bio-availability).
(9) It has been shown that oral administration in therapeutic doses of the psychostimulant sydnocarb optimizes the mnemonic processes.
(10) The ventral tegmental area is a site of action by psychostimulants in the production of behavioral sensitization.
(11) A distinction between the effects of opiates and psychostimulants on reinforced responding is hypothesized based on differential modulation of dopamine release.
(12) as well as by a psychostimulant effect similar to that of amphetamine which occurs through the release of dopamine.
(13) The authors assessed the influence of psychostimulants on relearning of rats of the avoidance direction in a Y-maze.
(14) An augmentation of psychostimulant-induced motor activity, termed sensitization, occurs with daily treatment and can last for months or years.
(15) Antidepressants could thus be distinguished from psychostimulants which decreased immobility at doses which increased general activity.
(16) They also found that a substantial number of psychiatrists who regularly prescribe MAOIs also report prescribing high doses and combining therapy with tricyclics, lithium, neuroleptics, and psychostimulants.
(17) The xanthine adenosine antagonists have mild psychostimulant, analgesic adjuvant, diuretic, cardiotonic and antiasthmatic activity.
(18) The most commonly used classes of psychiatric medicines, including antidepressants, CNS depressants, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, psychostimulants, and lithium carbonate, are reviewed as to their potential interactions with alcohol.
(19) In addition, they provide a specific basis for ameliorative treatment with psychostimulant medication.
(20) Three adults with DSM-III-R diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were treated with a combination of a psychostimulant and nadolol.