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Future research: skin temperature

By Dr Ramesh Manocha | Published: October 23, 2009

In this excerpt from his thesis, Dr Ramesh Manocha discusses potential future research into the changes in skin temperature observed in mental silence meditators.
Physiological trials of skin temperature could be expanded to include larger numbers of participants as well a other basic physiological parameters. Larger sample sizes and perhaps also randomisation which would necessitate the [...]

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The physiology of skin temperature

By Dr Ramesh Manocha | Published: September 7, 2009

In this excerpt from his thesis, Dr Ramesh Manocha discusses the physiology of skin temperature:
Unlike the understanding of the ANS and the physiology of the fight or flight response the physiology of human cutaneous circulation is less well understood. Charkoudian (2003) explains that the human cutaneous circulation is controlled by both sympathetic (adrenergic) vasoconstrictor nerves [...]

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