"Arousal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Cortical vigilance or readiness of tone, presumed to be in response to sensory stimulation via the reticular activating system.
| Descriptor ID |
D001143
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.830.104 G11.561.035
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Arousal" by people in this website by year, and whether "Arousal" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1999 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2000 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2014 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Arousal" by people in Profiles.
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Cocaine use disorder: anhedonia and emotional flattening in an emotional picture rating task. Addict Behav. 2026 Nov; 182:108794.
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Astrocyte activation in the ventrolateral medulla modulates breathing and arousal states. Nat Commun. 2026 May 23; 17(1).
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Methamphetamine Modulates Functional Connectivity Signatures of Sustained Attention and Arousal. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2026 Aug; 11(8):976-986.
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Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching. PLoS Comput Biol. 2025 04; 21(4):e1012994.
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Editors' Note: Challenges to Brain Death in Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act: The UDDA Revision Series. Neurology. 2024 01 09; 102(1):e208046.
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Pupillometry signatures of sustained attention and working memory. Atten Percept Psychophys. 2022 Nov; 84(8):2472-2482.
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The psychophysiology of the sigh: I: The sigh from the physiological perspective. Biol Psychol. 2022 04; 170:108313.
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The sigh and related behaviors. Handb Clin Neurol. 2022; 188:357-372.
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Subjective responses predict d-amphetamine choice in healthy volunteers. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2021 05; 204:173158.
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Lessons from helping behavior in rats. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2021 06; 68:52-56.