Third person singular present tense of fixate; the current action of focusing intensely on something.
From fixate with the -s inflection added for third person singular. See 'fixate' for root etymology.
When someone 'fixates,' brain imaging shows hyperactivity in the same neural circuits used for normal attention, which is why obsession feels so much like focus—your brain is just stuck in the 'on' position.
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