When stimulated, these receptors cause a cascade of events that lead to dementia.

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President Ronald Reagan, the iconic conservative, quickly backed off proposals like an initiative to reduce certain Social Security benefits when they stimulated a strong political backlash, and he left many other kinds of domestic spending, like Medicare or agricultural subsidies, intact.

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Private investment should be further stimulated when the fear of future yen appreciation declines, and the constraint on new bank-lending diminishes as bank profit-margins widen.

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Exactly why mice sing is not yet known, but given that the males are stimulated to sing when they smell female pheromones, it seems likely that it is to do with sex.

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Creativity and the sharing of information is often lost when people work independently because they are not stimulated and informed by social interaction.

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When fully phased in by 1983, this cut enormously stimulated economic activity: Personal income tax revenues soared more than 60% over the next seven years.

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In later experiments, when they were allowed to push a stimulation lever on their own accord, they self-stimulated hundreds of times per hour.

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Meanwhile, scholars in Europe, stimulated by the manuscripts in great European libraries, are working hard to find out how and when the Koran's written form was standardised.

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