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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 May 2014 10:21:38PM 0 points [-]

There are defense mechanisms that the body can use in cases of trauma that lead to reduced blood circulation which in turn messes up temperature regulation and shows itself as low blood pressure.

And these mechanisms don't involve anything that would show up on medical tests?

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 May 2014 11:41:17PM 0 points [-]

His low blood pressure does show up in medical tests. The question of why the body set blood pressure at a certain point is largely unsolved.

In our academic system mainstream medicine doesn't investigate psychological issues and psychology generally doesn't investigate physiological issues like body temperature.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 20 May 2014 03:47:17AM 1 point [-]

His low blood pressure does show up in medical tests.

Yet, for some reason the intervening mechanisms don't?

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 May 2014 07:32:53AM 0 points [-]

That would require running to see studies with big enough sample sizes to gather proxies for those proxies. There no money to run those studies.

Things that happen through complex patterns of neuron interactions are also not easy to study.

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