APA Dictionary of Psychology
excitability
- n.
- the tendency of some individuals to be readily aroused to emotional responses.
- in neurophysiology, the capacity of neurons and some muscle cells to respond electrically to external stimulation with a sudden, transient increase in their ionic permeability and a change in the electric potential across their cell membrane. —excitable adj.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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