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dishabituations

dishabituations is the plural of dishabituation.

Meaning of dishabituation

Noun

dishabituation (countable and uncountable, plural dishabituations)

  1. A way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.
    • Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated...2015 August 29, “Decline in the Recovery from Synaptic Depression in Heavier Aplysia Results from Decreased Serotonin-Induced Novel PKC Activation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. Process of reaching a dishabituated state.

Questions about dishabituations

What is dishabituations the plural of?
Dishabituations is the plural of dishabituation.

Words near dishabituations in the dictionary

  1. dishabituate
  2. dishabituated
  3. dishabituates
  4. dishabituating
  5. dishabituation
  6. dishabituations
  7. dishable
  8. dishabled
  9. dishables
  10. dishabling
  11. dishallow

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