Benedek T. Tihanyi

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How quick is the acute effect of exercise on the amount of synovial fluid?

How many minutes (e.g.) does it take for exercise to exert the increasing effect on synovial fluid significantly, and when the effect reaches it peak?

25 September 2020 1,435 3 View

How is muscle tone influenced by affective processes?

Could you suggest me empirical data regarding how affective processes (typically negative emotions, distress) cause increase in muscle tone? And also, how an intervention targeting emotion...

21 April 2019 10,091 7 View

Presence of non-specific health problems and dysphoria predicts later somatic diseases? Longitudinal papers?

The average experiences of non-specific health problems (eg. fatigue, headache) and low mood (low energy, distress) predicts later clinical-depth somatic diseases, like cardiovascular problems,...

24 February 2018 417 2 View

Chronic diseases are caused by (1) 'passing time' and a body not designed to live that long or (2) the maladaptive features of our lifestyle?

The most common chronic diseases and causes of death of our current population (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, cancer) are usually explained by the longer lifetime, and that during the evolution...

14 September 2017 4,048 5 View

Energy, prana, deqi... how their psychophysiological aspects were summed?

Do you know papers that sum up the scientific (physiological or psychological) results on the personal experiences of energy (prana, deqi), characterized often by body sensations (tingling,...

11 July 2017 576 9 View

Social support: how do you control it in an intervention research?

In our longifudinal yoga study with more paralell groups, we met a problem. In order to standardize the social effect of the classes, we asked the teacher not to initiate dialouges with...

09 July 2017 7,103 3 View

External self-perspective enhances self-objectification and have negative effect. Can it have positive ones? Can internal perspective be negative?

Self/Body objectification was said to be connected to an external self-perspective (i.e. exteroception like visual appearance), while an internal self-perspective (i.e. interoception, body...

25 June 2017 6,254 4 View

Acute body attention related experiences (body sensations, emotions, thoughts) are linked with the personal body-connection?

A bunch of cognitive evaluation of our body can exist paralelly in us. The pattern of their activation can be regarded as a personal connection with our body. Has it been investigated if the...

25 June 2017 1,699 11 View

When to turn to a doctor? At which point everyday complaints should be checked for organic/mental disease?

Non-specific health problems (headache, muscle tension, fatigue, dizziness, unstability) (http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.10.00143/event_abstract) find almost all of us, but...

03 April 2017 9,820 4 View

Which aspects of the polyvagal theory are proved experimentally?

As a therapists, I experience that my clients draw understanding and consequent calmness from the polyvagal model, especially from the concepts, that immobilization, fligh-or-fight,...

01 April 2017 3,842 28 View

What are the theoretical implications of Porges's Polyvagal Theory for health, body-mind connection, communication? Were these implications tested?

The polyvagal theory could imply for me that "for humans (and social mammals) the most adaptive stress-response is social communication and self-soothing. There are exceptional situations still...

01 April 2017 847 7 View

Is there a state-like scale to assess absorption (similar to the trait-like Tellegen Absorption Scale)?

We wish to measure the psychophysiology of watching a theatre play or acting in it, therefore we search for state questionnaires assessing altered state of minds,...

24 March 2017 3,810 5 View

How to compare the hunter-gatherer tribal and civilized lifestyle, especially regarding the amount of resources, safe, and social support?

In the theories of Nicholas Humphrey*, it was stated that during most of the evolution of humans, 100,000-10,000 years ago life was 1) more dangerous and 2) society was more oppressive than...

24 March 2017 9,077 5 View

Hyperventillation causes hypoxia in the tissues?

Paramedical resources and some theoretical papers stated that hyperventillation-induced hypocapnia shifts the hemoglobin-oxygen dissociation curve to the left, and causes hypoxia in the tissues....

01 January 1970 223 0 View