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Nervous system has voluntary and autonomic parts. Autonomic part comprises of Sympathetic and parasympathetic. They connect and control all parts of body. Various stimuli from mind affect body through this nervous system. If someone insults you there would be effect. You are angry and whole body gets affected. There is a fake snake but mind perceives it as real in dark and you have perspiration, fear and so on.
Today, stress and psychosomatic diseases are very common and cause of all of it lies at level of mind may be in form of beliefs, life style, competition comparison and so on.
Stress and various types of mind conditions do affect body through effect on various endocrine glands and hormones. In nut shell all inner happenings, thoughts, positive or negative attitudes and effects have connections all throughout body- mind-conscious level.
Subtle body has been studied like ECG, EEG, EMG for electrical body, aura body, chakras and nadis by aura photography and effects of anger, meditation etc on aura.
Hypothalamus
Paraventricular nucleus
Supraoptic nucleus
Median eminence
-Infundibulum
Anterior pituitary
Posterior pituitary
- Muscle
Thyrotropic cells secrete thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH).
Somatotropic cells secrete growth hormone (GH).
Thyroid
Bone
Adipose tissue
Mammotropic cells secrete prolactin (PRL).
Gonadotropic cells secrete follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH).
Testis
Mammary
gland
Ovary
Corticotropic cells secrete adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH).
Pars intermedia cells secrete melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH)
-Adrenal cortex
Adrenal gland
Melanocytes
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