TITLE:
Some Ethnic Features of Northern Aborigines’ Psychophysiology as a Base for Survival in Extreme Natural Conditions: A Review
AUTHORS:
V. I. Hasnulin, I. M. Voytik, A. V. Hasnulina, T. I. Ryabichenko, G. A. Skosyreva
KEYWORDS:
Psychophysiological Mechanisms of Survival, Phenotype of Organism Adaptation Reserves, Hemispheric Asymmetry, Northern Type of Metabolism
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Medical Psychology,
Vol.3 No.4,
July
4,
2014
ABSTRACT:
The indigenous population of the North can efficiently preserve health and vital activity, and reproduce new generations under extreme climatic and geographic conditions due to peculiar way of life, mental features, rituals, regimes of work and rest, social and cultural traditions. Of great importance are also the clothes which are favorable for keeping heat and self-cleaning, some psycho-therapeutic factors (rituals of shamanism), animal food and vegetables. The phenotype of the adaptation reserves of an organism, northern type of metabolism, dominance of the right brain hemisphere play a great role, so does the adaptation of national mentality to the harmony of inner human state with the extreme environmental conditions of high latitudes.