Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage
Subtitle: an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Branford
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Emotions; Physiology; Mental health
Notes: "References" at end of each chapter. "A list of published researches from the physiological laboratory of the Medical School of Harvard University, on which the present account is based": pages 393-396.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I. The effect of the emotions on digestion; title: Chapter II. The general organization of the visceral nerves concerned in emotions; title: Chapter III. Methods of demonstrating adrenal secretion and its nervous control; title: Chapter IV. Adrenal secretion in strong emotions and pain; title: Chapter V. The increase of blood sugar in pain and great emotion; title: Chapter VI. Improved concentration of fatigued muscle after splanchnic stimulation of the adrenal gland; title: Chapter VII. The effects on contraction of fatigued muscle of varying the arterial blood pressure; title: Chapter VIII. The specific role of adrenin in counter-acting the effects of fatigue; title: Chapter IX. The hastening of coagulation of blood by adrenin; title: Chapter X. The hastening of coagulation of blood in pain and great emotion; title: Chapter XI. Emotional increase of red blood corpuscles; title: Chapter XII. The utility of the bodily changes in pain and great emotion; title: Chapter XIII. The energizing influence of emotional excitement; title: Chapter XIV. Emotional derangement of bodily functions; title: Chapter XV. The nature of hunger; title: Chapter XVI. The physiological basis of thirst; title: Chapter XVII. The interrelations of emotions; title: Chapter XVIII. A critical examination of the James-Lange theory of emotions; title: Chapter XIX. Emotion as a function of the optic thalamus; title: Chapter XX. Alternative satisfactions for the fighting emotions.