oversensitive
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“It’s an oversensitive dopamine response that leads to varied feelings, ” says therapist and author Marissa Zwetow.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2026
But we don't know why some people have an oversensitive nervous system - and why it reacts to some things and not others.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
According to study leader Gregory Barton, UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology, identifying these mutations could help doctors deliver a personalized treatment to patients with oversensitive TLRs and, in particular, oversensitive TLR7 receptors.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
“The result today is, for some people, that our immune systems are oversensitive, and sometimes they turn on themselves.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
Also, he was Jewish, and although Lawrence was not an anti-Semite, he could be oversensitive to ethnic distinctions, possibly because of his upbringing in an ethnically homogenous rural community.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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