The yawn: more complicated than you think?


	The yawn: more complicated than you think?

enbar

10-30-2007 11:41 PM

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enbar says:

Is the yawn a "mini-orgasm"? One Dutch researcher claims it is.

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11-1-2007 11:17 AM

abailart

Yawning, I tihnk could be linked with the vagus nerve which controls among other things sneezing and genital arousal (interesting going through the middle of the enteric nervous system (the autonomous 'gut brain').

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