Physiological arousal is purportedly a key determinant in the development and maintenance of gambling behaviors, with problem gambling conceptualized in terms of abnormal autonomic responses. Theoretical conceptualizations of problem gambling are discordant regarding the nature of deficit in this disorder; some accounts posit that problem gamblers are hypersensitive to reward, and others that t...

Our body is made of flesh and bones. We know it, and in our daily lives all the senses constantly provide converging information about this simple, factual truth. But is this always the case? Here we report a surprising bodily illusion demonstrating that humans rapidly update their assumptions about the material qualities of their body, based on their recent multisensory perceptual experience. ...

Three experiments investigated the relationship between subjective experience and attentional lapses during sustained attention. These experiments employed two measures of subjective experience (thought probes and questionnaires) to examine how differences in awareness correspond to variations in both task performance (reaction time and errors) and psycho-physiological measures (heart rate and ...

Habituation of the GSR responses obtained from a group of 20 patients sufferings from anxiety states was compared with a group of 20 matched normals, selected for lack of anxiety. Habituation parameter did differentiate the two groups very distinctly, where very fast habituation WP.S noted in the normals. Findings were interpreted in terms of the level of arousal of the patients/subjects tested.

Cervical spondylosis is a broad term which describes the age related chronic disc degeneration. The degenerative changes start in the intervertebral disc with osteophyte formation and lead to physiological degenerative cascade that contributes to biomechanical changes that result in neural and vascular compression. Autonomic nervous system (ANS) influences the functions of nearly all organ syst...