News tagged with thermoregulation


Too hot to sleep? Here's why

Bushfires are quite appropriately dominating our nation's concerns during the current Australian heatwave. But for many, the struggle to sleep through soaring temperatures is a personal inferno that dominates ...

Health created Jan 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids'

(Medical Xpress)—The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn has led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise recovery, and could help explain ...

Medical research created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

What can animals' survival instincts tell us about understanding human emotion?

Can animals' survival instincts shed additional light on what we know about human emotion? New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux poses this question in outlining a pioneering theory, drawn from two decades of research, ...

Neuroscience created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast