I'm going to guess "hightened". My mother was recently diagnosed with a myeloproliferative neoplasm, and has been reading & connecting online with great vigor

I'm going to guess "hightened". My mother was recently diagnosed with a myeloproliferative neoplasm, and has been reading & connecting online with great vigor since. I can't speak for her, of course, as to how she knows who to trust, but my sense is that it's not quite like googling for diabetes or toenail fungus and getting homeopathy links in the results. Rather, it's more like exchanging emails with other patients with the same disease, and reading documents offered by the Mayo Clinic etc. No doubt she still needs to exercise critical thinking, and not everybody is equally equipped for that.