Weather sensitivity of healthy subjects

Abstract

Healthy humans are characterized by a fine physiological weather sensitivity. Normally, it is expressed as brain and behavior responses to ordinary geophysical factors, such as wind conditions, temperature, atmospheric pressure, and relative humidity. According to comparative evolutionary assessment, behavioral weather sensitivity grows with its phylogenetic complication within a species, which has been demonstrated in rats (Rattus norvegicus) and humans. The behavioral response of rats is more acute than in men. In men, correlations between electroencephalogram rhythms (EEG) and weather fluctuations become stronger, as “Δ-θ-α-β” cerebral rhythms speed up. This dependence progresses throughout the ontogenesis of a healthy man, i.e., as one matures and advances in age. The number of correlations between weather and REG or EEG parameters increases nonlinearly within an ontogenetic series from 3 to 72 years of age. Physiological weather sensitivity forms a diversity of reactions to environmental changes enlarging the arsenal of the adaptive plasticity of a whole body