disentrain
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (more generally) To disrupt a body's homeostatic patterns.Examples: "Because dexamethasone and naloxone successfully reduce body weight, blood lipid and glucose levels, and blood pressure in Obese/SHR (to be published), the question arose whether prevention of corpulency by daily exercise would also disentrain the genetically programmed obesity and hypertension."; "In particular, hypnotic dissociation appears to disentrain the conscious facility responsible for our "free won't," the neurological circuitry that enables us to voluntarily suppress impulses that are on the verge of being executed."; "The administration of subsequent AED(s) (lorazepam in the first patient, fentanyl and propofol in the second patient) dynamically disentrained the brain (statistically high T-index values were attained and sustained)."broadly
2. (neurobiology) To extinguish a conditioned association.Examples: "We have seen that consciousness can be viewed as an integration of neural functions, which are entrained and disentrained from moment to moment."; "There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity."; "Hence, interestingly, a speaker (VR) might disentrain in no-frequency but entrain in the frequency of a particular discourse function; we also have a speaker with the opposite pattern (DF)."
Definition source: Wiktionary