In psychological terms, refers to freedom to act according to one’s inner drives or feelings, with less regard for restraints imposed by cultural norms or one’s superego.
In neurology, refers to removal of an inhibitory, constraining, or limiting influence, as in the failure of cortical control over emotions or behaviors regulated by more primitive brain structures. An example is a person with frontal lobe injury from an automobile accident expressing violent rage over a child’s playing with food during a family dinner.
In neurobiology, may refer to uncontrolled firing of impulses, as when a drug interferes with the usual limiting or inhibiting action of Gaba (gamma-aminobutyric acid) within the central nervous system (CNS).
Freedom to act according to one’s inner drives or feelings, with less regard for restraints imposed by cultural norms or one’s superego; removal of an inhibitory constraining, or limiting influence, as in the escape from higher cortical control in neurologic injury.
An increase of some reaction tendency by the removal of some inhibiting influence upon the behavior, disinhibiting effect.
Pattern of responding to situations without constraint, often found in children with learning disabilities or mental disorders who are unable to stop themselves from responding to the variety of distracting stimuli in their environment.
Elimination or countering of restraint or abstinence; in psychiatry, loss of the conscious suppression of unacceptable thoughts or desires resulting in socially or culturally unacceptable behavior.
The act of enhancing the firing ability of a neuron through reducing inhibitory controls.