Quotes About Physiology

It emerged from two other disciplines, physiology and philosophy. German Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) is seen as the father of psychology because he insisted it should be a separate discipline, more empirical than philosophy and more focused on the mind than physiology. In the 1870s he created the first experimental psychology laboratory, and wrote his huge work Principles of Physiological Psychology.

Kriya Yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which human blood is decarbonated and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centres. By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissues. The

Your brain is the "greediest" organ in the body; the resting brain uses oxygen and glucose at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body. Thus, even though the brain makes up less than 2.5 percent of total body weight, it is responsible for 20 percent of the body's energy consumption.

Os padrões psicológicos são muito claros. Quando uma pessoa diz "Não" e acredita realmente no que está a dizer, ele ou ela estão a fazer muito mais do que simplesmente pronunciar uma palavra de três letras. Todo o organismo – glandular, nervoso, muscular – se congrega numa condição de rejeição.

have you ever seen an actual human brain? It's built in two parts—an outer part called the dura mater and an inner part called the pia mater. These two parts are separated by the arachnoid—a veil of weblike tissue." Langdon cocked his head in surprise. Gently, she reached up and touched Langdon's temple. "There's a reason they call this your temple, Robert.

each emotion prepares the body for a very different kind of response:7

Love, tender feelings, and sexual satisfaction entail parasympathetic arousal, the physiological opposite of the fight-or-flight mobilization shared by fear and anger. The parasympathetic pattern, dubbed the relaxation response, is a body wide set of reactions that generates a general state of calm and contentment, facilitating cooperation.

For Ming Kai's nose—which, like so many Chinese organs, was advanced beyond the reckoning of his Caucasian brother—

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

People tend to shrink with age, especially after age 50 or so. It has to do with spaces between the joints amount of cartilage and posture. Bone length does not change.

The ears are the last feature to age.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

intercostal muscles. They are located between your ribs, and basically, they are how you breathe.

All such mental overtensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted action of various glands which physiology will yet discover. And medical materialism then thinks that the spiritual authority of all such personages is successfully undermined.

Burgomaster et al. (2005) found that six sessions of 30-second all-out sprint intervals over 2 weeks doubled athletes' time to exhaustion (from 26 to 51 minutes) at a sustained intensity of 80 percent of peak VO2.

Of the 30 trillion cells in a 70 kg adult body, 25 trillion are erythrocytes. Fewer than 200 billion cells, under 1 percent, make up the brain, half of which are neurons. The same body also plays host to about 38 trillion bacteria, its microbiome (Sender, Fuchs, & Milo, 2016).

The reverse can also happen: as a man becomes more and more attached to his family, levels of testosterone can decline. In fact, at the birth of a child, expectant fathers experience a significant decline in levels of testosterone.66 Even when a man holds a baby, levels of testosterone decrease. This

Most people think of the mind as located in the head, but the latest findings in physiology suggest that the mind doesn't really dwell in the brain but travels the whole body on caravans of hormones and enzymes, busily making sense of the compound wonders we catalogue as touch, taste, smell, hearing, and vision.

Feeling challenged is an inherent performance steroid—your body releases more adrenaline than noradrenaline, which means the smooth muscle in your blood vessels dilate, as do your your lungs, and now you have more oxygenated blood going to the tissues that need it. Your body has more energy and your brain can think more clearly.

Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.