Thompson, S., 2017. Hypothesis to explain yawning, cortisol rise, brain cooling and motor cortex involvement of involuntary arm movement in neurologically impaired patients. Journal of Neurology & Neuroscience, 8 (1), 167.
Full text available as:
|
PDF (OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE)
2017-Motor-Cortex.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. 620kB | |
Copyright to original material in this document is with the original owner(s). Access to this content through BURO is granted on condition that you use it only for research, scholarly or other non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact BU via BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk. Any third party copyright material in this document remains the property of its respective owner(s). BU grants no licence for further use of that third party material. |
Abstract
Association between the hormone cortisol and yawning has been found. The Thompson Cortisol Hypothesis proposed a link between yawning and rises in cortisol with further recent evidence from neuroscience showing communication between the motor cortex, brain-stem and hypothalamus. Hormonal and neuronal links form the proposed network that influences and also monitors cortisol and brain temperature regulation via the hypothalamus. Evidence supports the proposed connection between brain-stem, hypothalamus and motor cortex and further supports the Thompson Cortisol Hypothesis suggesting threshold levels of cortisol elicit yawning to cool the brain. Additionally, this may explain the well-known observed phenomenon known as parakinesia brachialis oscitans in brain-stem ischaemic stroke patients during involuntary yawning.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
ISSN: | 2171-6625 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cortisol rise; Brain cooling; Motor cortex; Neurologically impaired patients |
Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
ID Code: | 26655 |
Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
Deposited On: | 30 Jan 2017 12:44 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:02 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Repository Staff Only - |