Sentences with phrase «blunt response»

Their analyses revealed that during the processing of negative emotions, BPD patients show enhanced activations of the left amygdala along with blunted responses of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex compared to healthy controls.

As Judge Shira Scheindlin prepares to step down after nearly 22 years as a federal district judge in Manhattan, she offered her first extensive interviews about the stop - and - frisk case for which she has become best known in recent years, and also her tenure, with a particularly blunt response to the criticism she has received.

Studies suggest that, among other things, depressed mothers have heightened amygdala responses to an unfamiliar baby, perhaps blunting the response to their own child.

This research shows an overall blunted response to the anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin among African Americans, and it suggests that a higher dose may be required in African Americans to achieve better cardiovascular disease prevention and lessen disparities among the different ethnic groups,» Dr. Alghothani advised.

The Toyota Auris can't compete with the Ford Focus or Vauxhall Astra when it comes to driver appeal and the extra weight of the hybrid's battery pack and electric motor blunt its responses still further.

This gives it a bulkier feel and blunts responses when you're driving enthusiastically on a twisty road.

That sparked a blunt response from Russia, which warned the U.S. against the strike.

Robert W. Baird's Benjamin Kallo's suggestion that Tesla offer more Model 3 updates to help boost its stock price was met with a blunt response.

It could adjust interest rates, but that is a blunt response to a potential bubble in housing, farmland or some other asset.

The lawmakers» announcement, along with his blunt responses to questions about same - sex marriage, made him something of a star.

It's not clear whether a blunted response would be good or bad, particularly since the study participants were all healthy women who didn't suffer from anxiety.

Wrangham offers a blunt response: capital punishment.

«That is not what we are going to do,» was the blunt response from Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversees DOE.

It appears that older persons exhibit a blunted response to the nutrients, which may explain the impaired recovery following exercise.

Results may reveal a normal response, a blunted response (sick euthyroid syndrome), or no response (hypothyroidism).

It's a development that reflects something Robert Brulle and others have explored — how the shifting baselines of our concerns, and our inherent adaptive nature, can blunt a response to looming or incremental risks.

I've filed an update (link to come) that focuses on the arrival of Todd Stern, the United States climate envoy, and his blunt response to developing countries that are claiming the world's rich owe its poor a «climate debt.»

She asked a widow what she liked about her property, and the woman's blunt response was, «Not a damn thing.»