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  2. Diving reflex - Wikipedia

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    Diving reflex in a human baby. The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the basic homeostatic reflexes, and is found in all air-breathing vertebrates studied to date.

  3. My Anxiety Had Something to Teach Me - AOL

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    There’s such a thing as a mammalian diving reflex, which slows the mammalian pulse—i.e., our pulses—if we believe we’re underwater, an instinct that allows us to conserve as much heat as ...

  4. Infant swimming - Wikipedia

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    Most human babies demonstrate an innate swimming or diving reflex from birth until the age of approximately six months, which are part of a wider range of primitive reflexes found in infants and babies, but not children, adolescents and adults. Other mammals also demonstrate this phenomenon (see mammalian diving reflex).

  5. Cold shock response - Wikipedia

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    The diving reflex is more pronounced in aquatic mammals and is thought to have originated as a way to conserve oxygen and enhance the ability to stay underwater for longer periods. Key components of the diving reflex include: Bradycardia: The heart rate decreases significantly when the face is exposed to cold water. This helps to conserve ...

  6. Reflex syncope - Wikipedia

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    Reflex syncope can occur in otherwise healthy individuals, and has many possible causes, often trivial ones such as prolonged standing with the legs locked. [ citation needed ] The main danger of vasovagal syncope (or dizzy spells from vertigo) is the risk of injury by falling while unconscious.

  7. Jacques Mayol - Wikipedia

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    In 1976, Mayol broke the 100 metres (330 ft) barrier with a no-limits 101 metres (331 ft) dive off Elba, Italy. [7] Tests showed that during this dive his heart beat decreased from 60 to 27 beats/min, an aspect of the mammalian diving reflex, a reflex more evident in whales, seals, and dolphins. Mayol's last deep dive followed in 1983 when he ...

  8. Talk:Diving reflex - Wikipedia

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    The term Mammalian diving reflex is not an accurate description, and therefore, the article should be renamed to the more general term, Diving response, with Mammalian diving reflex as a redirect. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 14:02, 20 January 2017 (UTC) It appears that Diving reflex is also used in the literature.

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    Walmart has become the most recent retailer known to have some store employees wear body cameras. The nation's largest retailer has some employees taking part in a body camera pilot program ...