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- adjective Showing a much greater than normal
response to astimulus
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Examples
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When our limbic system is hyperreactive, it's difficult to engage the prefrontal cortex and therefore difficult to absorb and process new information.
Tish Jennings: The Missing Dimension of the Education Debate Tish Jennings 2011
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When our limbic system is hyperreactive, it's difficult to engage the prefrontal cortex and therefore difficult to absorb and process new information.
Tish Jennings: The Missing Dimension of the Education Debate Tish Jennings 2011
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Of course, the notion of a sentient moose is so absurd, that hyperreactive PC hunter-sensitivity is more symptomatic of the need for someone (not the moose) to develop a thicker hide.
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As I said, most of these stories involve "journalists" scrolling to the bottom of the blog entry and reading anonymous comments from the most emotionally hyperreactive element of the party.
More Polling Deflates Notion Of Left "Angry" With Obama's Cabinet Picks 2009
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Admittedly, this was the work of an inherently belligerent and hyperreactive crowd, but it bodes ill for the possibility of any discussion of any issue, in an age when thousands of hotheads can key off the inflammatory rhetoric of a few opinion leaders without compunction, consequence, or any direct confrontation with the results of their intemperate outbursts.
Friendly Fire: Gun Nuts Go Full-Auto on One of Their Own « Lean Left 2007
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Also anecdotically but not without sound science behind, I remember growing up with the constant burden of being hyperreactive to insect bites.
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Also anecdotically but not without sound science behind, I remember growing up with the constant burden of being hyperreactive to insect bites.
Ditch your NSAID meds | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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Their hyperactivity may be channeled into being hypertalkative, hypersensitive, hypercurious, or hyperreactive.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Their hyperactivity may be channeled into being hypertalkative, hypersensitive, hypercurious, or hyperreactive.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Their hyperactivity may be channeled into being hypertalkative, hypersensitive, hypercurious, or hyperreactive.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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