YAWNING
YAWNING
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DOI:
10.1136/jnnp.21.3.203
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发表时间:
1958-01-01
影响因子:
11
通讯作者:
BARBIZET, J
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BARBIZET, J
Halfway between a reflex and an expressive move-ment yawning is a very commonplace phenomenon. Perhaps this is the reason why one searches in vain for a paper on this subject in text-books of contemporary physiology or psychology and that one must be content with the brief definition in the dictionary that" yawning is a deep inspiration made voluntarily with a wide open mouth". Many authors since Hippocrates, who seems himself to have been interested in the question, have studied either certain aspects or the whole problem. An excellent historical survey of the past knowledge about yawning may be found in the thesis of Trautmann (1901), where are reported the opinions of Galen, Oribase, Sanctorius, Fernel (1610), Kruger (1627), Sennert (1666), Boerhave (1680), Gartner (1736), Albertini (1737), Gunz (1738), Czerniewski (1749), Buchner (1758), Roederer (1759) Haller (1766), Walther (1775) Double (1817), Adelon (1821), Rothmund (1824), Richerand (1825), Muller (1851), Monneret (1861), Longet (1868), and Dechambre and Charcot. In the twentieth century more papers have been written, among others by Hauptmann (1920), Dumpert (1921), Mayer (1921), Insabato (1928), Peiper (1932), Moore (1942), and Salmon (1948). Two good critical reviews are those by Heusner (1946) and Boudouresques (1950). The zoologists have not remained indifferent, and they teach us that yawning may be observed in the primates and the carnivores. It is often accompanied by stretching. It is not observed in herbivores. It is difficult to specify its significance, and the connexion between yawning and the movement of opening the mouth that may be observed in fishes, reptiles, and amphibians. Thesame may be said of the movements madeby the bird's beak accompanied by flapping of the wings. Therefore our study shall remain limited to man.