Abstract The locus coeruleus (LC) has established functions in both attention and respiration. Good attentional performance requires optimal levels of tonic LC activity, and must be matched to task consistently. LC neurons are chemosensitive, causing respiratory phrenic nerve firing to increase frequency with higher CO 2 levels, and as CO 2 level varies with the phase of respiration, tonic LC...
The Chariot of Fire: Terrorism, Liberalism, and the Mystic Attitude Zusammenfassung Patrick White's novel, Riders in the Chariot, develops a critique of Weimar German liberalism from a mystical standpoint, explaining the intellectual weakness of liberalism and depicting the response of the mysticism of fire, in part historically based, to the systemic terror of Nazism.The scenes from the novel...