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"Should we all learn to namaste, a non-contacy greeting from India?" The author says in an essay promoting cultures to have more touch, disregarding the fact that sometimes while saying namaste to greet respectful elders in India means you kneel and touch their bare feet with your hands while saying it (therefore, perhaps the most touch in any greeting)!
— Feb 28, 2021 12:07PM
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Liam O'Leary
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A and C fibre classification is limited to primary sensory afferents in the PNS, strictly because of the position and type of sensory endings in the epidermis, so the same system isn't used for internal sensation by interoceptive afferents of the autonomic system...
— Feb 28, 2021 10:09AM
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"Nerves are not only sensitive at the receptor end of the nerve. There are membrane channels along the whole length of the nerve that soak up chemical signals such as stress hormones and inflammatory modulators."
This is incorrect. Myelinated axon nodes only have voltage-gated ion channels. Sensory and proprioceptive afferents have receptive fields. Besides, channels only ever to influence synaptic transmission...
— Feb 28, 2021 10:02AM
This is incorrect. Myelinated axon nodes only have voltage-gated ion channels. Sensory and proprioceptive afferents have receptive fields. Besides, channels only ever to influence synaptic transmission...