Hyperreflexive

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(medicine) Involving overreaction in a reflex response..

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1. (medicine) Involving overreaction in a reflex response.
2. Tending toward abnormally high levels of introspection.
3. (mathematics) Having a bounded local distance of operators in a nested algebra or reflexive subspace

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It is velocity dependent, and there is a hyperreflexive tendon jerk. On the other hand, clinical rigidity is bidirectional, not velocity dependent, and there is no hyperreflexive tendon jerk.

Animal studies of cannabinoids reveal widely varying behavioral effects, but several appear consistently. One is a hyperreflexive response to specific stimuli accompanying the overall sedative effects.

The patellar reflex is typically normal or may appear hyperreflexive.

Not only are the reflex arcs functioning in the hind limbs despite the damage to the spinal cord at L1 to L2, but the reflex responses are hyperreflexive.

But Artaud describes certain strange transformations of facial awareness that one might imagine occurring under conditions of prolonged withdrawal and hyperreflexive contemplation — conditions in which the normally implicit and inner is extruded into a state of quasi-externality.

Secondly, however, as Sass (1998, 2000) suggests, metarepresentation and a certain degree of overmonitoring of experience can be generated in hyperreflexive experience, when processes that are ordinarily tacit (processes that I normally do not have to monitor explicitly or consciously) come to the subject's attention.

The passage describes a lived face that, under conditions of hyperreflexive awareness and diminished self-affection, seems to be turned inside out, flattened and extruded until it becomes a kind of fluid mask — a fragile lived membrane of squirming sensitivity and kaleidoscopic pattern that seems to lift off from his head to float independently in the air.

This hyperreflexive “turning backward” toward the self is incompatible with more spontaneous, world-directed forms of activity.

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