Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage : $b an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitementCannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford)
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Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage : $b an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement
Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford)
Emotions; Mental health; Mind and body
Autonomic nervous system: three divisions of, 25;
arrangement of sympathetic division of, 26-29;
arrangement of cranial and sacral divisions of, 29-30;
general functions of cranial division of, 30-32;
general functions of sacral division of, 32-34;
antagonism between sympathetic and cranial-sacral divisions
of, 34-36;
identity of action of sympathetic division of, and adrenal
secretion, 36-38;
antagonisms between emotions expressed in, 268-272.
Behavior: biological explanation of, 2.
Bile: flow of, inhibited by excitement, 13.
Bladder: innervation of, 27, 32;
effects of emotions on, 33.
Blood: method of obtaining, for test for adrenin, 45-46;
method of testing, for adrenin, 47-50;
sugar in, 66, 73-74;
distribution of, as affected by adrenin, pain and excitement,
107-108, 200;
functions of, 135;
rapid coagulation of, by adrenin, 136 ff.;
drawing of, for testing coagulation time, 140-142;
treatment of, in testing coagulation time, 142-145;
faster coagulation of, after subcutaneous injections of adrenin,
147-150,
and after intravenous injections, 150-156;
oscillations in the rate of coagulation of, 155;
rapid coagulation of, not due directly to adrenin, 156-158;
rapid coagulation of, not caused by adrenin in absence of liver
and intestines, 157-158,
and not caused by increase of blood sugar, 159, 170;
coagulation of, hastened by splanchnic stimulation, 162-167,
but not in absence of adrenal glands, 167-171;
possible delay of coagulation of, after stimulation of hepatic
nerves, 170;
coagulation of, hastened by “painful” stimulation, 172-177;
coagulation of, hastened in light anesthesia, 174-177;
rapid coagulation of, after excitement, stopped by severing
splanchnic nerves, 180-182;
utility of increased sugar in, 188-193;
distribution of, in pain and excitement, favorable to muscular
effort, 201;
sugar in, increased by asphyxia, 209;
utility of rapid coagulation of, 211.
Bronchioles: dilated by adrenin, 204.
Bulimia: explanation of, 262.
Coagulation, see Blood.
Coagulometer: graphic, 138-147.
Combat: relation of emotion and endurance in, 225-226;
nature of ancient, 294.
Constipation: as result of worry and anxiety, 271.
Cortex, cerebral: insensitiveness of, 242.
Cranial autonomic division: functions of, to conserve bodily
resources, 30-32, 268;
activities of, suppressed by activities of sympathetic division,
268-272.
Curare: action of, antagonized by adrenin, 132.
Dances: relation of excitement and endurance in, 222-224.
Danger: stimulating effect of, 230.
Dervishes: exhibitions of endurance by, 224.
Digestion: interruption of, by strong emotion, 9-12, 13-18,
268-269.
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