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
Emotions: surface signs of, 3;
favorable to digestive secretions, 4-8;
unfavorable to digestive secretions, 9-13;
persistence of effects of, on digestive secretions, 12;
effects of, on gastric and intestinal contractions, 13-18;
in relation to sympathetic division, 36;
in relation to adrenal secretion, 44, 52-59, 62-63;
increase of blood sugar in, 66, 73;
glycosuria in, 70-76;
influence of, on distribution of blood in body, 108;
faster coagulation of blood in, 177-182,
but stopped by cutting splanchnics, 180-182;
value of forced respiration in, 203;
value of bronchiolar dilation in, 204;
relation to action, 215;
displayed in a “pattern” response, 218, 282;
in relation to exhibitions of power and endurance, 215, 229;
antagonisms between cranial and sympathetic, 268-270,
and between sacral and sympathetic, 270-272;
similarity of visceral changes in strong, 275-279;
dependence of, on cerebral cortex, 282-283.
Endurance: feats of, related to great emotion, 217-218;
in the excitements of mania and dancing, 222-224;
stimulated by music, 228.
Esophagus: contractions of, associated with hunger sensation,
259-260.
Fatigue: of muscle, 84;
muscular, lessened by splanchnic stimulation, 89-93;
as affected by increase of arterial pressure, 97-102;
irritability of muscle in, increased by splanchnic stimulation,
101;
explanation of effects of varied arterial pressure on, 104-106;
lessens neuro-muscular irritability, 114-117, 120;
effect of, on curarized muscle, 132;
utility of adrenin in lessening effects of, 194, 195;
of adrenal glands, 199;
cessation of hunger contractions in, 262.
Fear: anticipatory character of, 186-187;
associated with action, 188;
explanation of paralyzing effect of, 189;
energizing influence of, 216;
relation to rage, 275;
bodily changes in, like those in rage, 276-277;
importance of, as a fighting emotion, 286.
“Fesselungsdiabetes,” 69.
Fever: absence of hunger in, 242, 263.
Fighting emotions: bodily changes in, like those in competitive
sports, 219-221, 296;
anger and fear as, 285;
importance of, 286;
satisfactions for, in competitive sports, 301.
Food: effect of sight and smell of, on gastric secretion, 6.
Football: glycosuria in players of, 75;
relation of excitement and power in, 219-221.
Frenzy: endurance in, 223, 224.
Ganglia: autonomic, 23.
Gastric glands: turgescence of, not the cause of hunger sensation,
249-250.
Gastric juice: psychic secretion of, 5-8, 11;
importance of, for intestinal digestion, 7;
flow of, inhibited by excitement, 9-12,
and by pain, 19.
Generative organs: innervation of, 32, 33;
effects of strong emotions on activities in, 271.
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