Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, biofeedback is a real phenomenon. So is "visceral learning," a process of becoming aware of and controlling such usually unconscious and involuntary physiological processes as heartbeat, blood pressure, temperature and intestinal contractions. As with alpha waves, the teaching process consists of asking a subject to try to produce a particular bodily effect, then signaling him whenever he manages...
...People drop dead because of electrical derangement of the heartbeat," said Lown. Sudden death kills 400,000 Americans yearly. There are no precise warnings to alert the victim of an attack and the time between an attack and death is very short, often a matter of minutes...
...goal is to identify susceptible subjects," said Lown. His team is also developing drugs which would be used to regulate heartbeat and is studying the higher nervous activities involved with heartbeat rate...
...board because it was too heavy, he did the next best thing by adding Nurse Diana Goodliffe, 33, to the crew. A member of Dr. Christiaan Barnard's heart-transplant team, she came prepared with equipment like an oscilloscope to check the pattern of Bruynzeel's heartbeat and the culinary qualifications to serve as ship's cook. Once at sea, says Bruynzeel, "Diana never forgot to give me my pills six times a day." Each evening, he never forgot to take a belt of Scotch before retiring. Though Bruynzeel denies published reports that he stowed a weighted...
...that Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton would never forget. On March 15, 1962, only two months before the taciturn astronaut was scheduled to become the second American to orbit the earth, NASA doctors abruptly grounded him. Reason: they had discovered an occasional irregularity in the rhythm of his heartbeat. The bitterly disappointed Slayton subsequently became chief of flight-crew operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center and played a key role in picking all future space crews, including the first men to land on the moon. But even as he sent other astronauts to the launch pad, he never stopped dreaming...