Yawning—Its anatomy, chemistry, role, and pathological considerations

Krestel, Heinz; Bassetti, C.; Walusinski, Olivier

doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2017.11.003

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“…Even though spontaneous yawning is considered a fixed action pattern, its description is not fixed at all. Spontaneous yawning has been described as consisting of long, deep inspiration, brief peak with apnea (acme) followed by a slow expiration (Walusinski and Deputte, 2004;Guggisberg et al, 2010) sometimes reported as rapid (Baenninger, 1997;Krestel et al, 2018) or shorter (Provine, 2012;Gallup et al, 2016). When integrating the different descriptions of the motor patterns defining a yawning event (Walusinski and Deputte, 2004;Guggisberg et al, 2010;Provine, 2012;Baenninger, 1997), it is possible to claim that it includes active jaw gaping, eye closure, contraction of facial muscles, and passive jaw closure, accompanied by neck stretching and head tilting and, in some cases, by limb and body stretching.…”

Section: Yawn Contagionmentioning

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The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

Palagi

Celeghin

Tamietto

et al. 2020

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Section: Yawn Contagionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

Palagi

Celeghin

Tamietto

et al. 2020

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

108

142

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“…Yawning is an involuntary sequence of mouth opening, deep inspiration, brief apnea, and more or less slow expiration (Baenninger, 1997;Walusinski and Deputte, 2004;Guggisberg et al, 2010;Krestel et al, 2018). When elicited, a yawn cannot be totally suppressed.…”

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Auditory Contagious Yawning Is Highest Between Friends and Family Members: Support to the Emotional Bias Hypothesis

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Contagious yawning differs from spontaneous yawning because it occurs when an individual yawns in response to someone else's yawn. In Homo sapiens and some nonhuman primates contagious yawning is higher between strongly than weakly bonded individuals. Up to date, it is still unclear whether this social asymmetry underlies emotional contagion (a basic form of empathy preferentially involving familiar individuals) as predicted by the Emotional Bias Hypothesis (EBH) or is linked to a top-down, selective visual attention bias (with selective attention being preferentially directed toward familiar faces) as predicted by the Attentional Bias Hypothesis (ABH). To verify whether the visual attentional bias explained the yawn contagion bias or not, in this study, we considered only yawns that could be heard but not seen by potential responders (auditory yawns). Around 294 of auditory yawning occurrences were extrapolated from over 2000 yawning bouts collected in free ranging humans for over nine years. Via GLMM, we tested the effect of intrinsic features (i.e., gender and age) and social bond (from strangers to family members) on yawn. The individual identity of the subjects (trigger and potential responder) was included as random factor. The social bond significantly predicted the occurrence of auditory yawn contagion, which was highest between friends and family members. A gender bias was also observed, with women responding most frequently to others' yawns and men being responded to most frequently by others. These results confirm that social bond is per se one of the main drivers of the differences in yawn contagion rates between individuals in support of the EBH of yawn contagion.

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“…More rarely, yawning can occur in patients with intracranial hypertension, multiple sclerosis, migraine and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and can be induced by drugs. It is rare in patients with autism spectrum disorders or schizophrenia 11,21,24,27,31,42,53,58,59,61 .…”

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Yawning in neurology: a review

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Munhoz

Camargo

et al. 2018

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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Yawning is a stereotyped physiological behavior that can represent a sign or symptom of several conditions, such as stroke, parakinesia brachialis oscitans, parkinsonism, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. More rarely, it can occur in patients with intracranial hypertension, brain tumor, multiple sclerosis, migraine, Chiari malformation type I, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Drug-induced yawning is an uncommon clinical condition and yawning in patients with autism or schizophrenia is very rare. The aim of this review is to describe in detail the occurrence of the phenomenon in such conditions, and its' phenomenology and pathophysiology.

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Yawning—Its anatomy, chemistry, role, and pathological considerations

Cited by 32 publications

References 136 publications

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

Auditory Contagious Yawning Is Highest Between Friends and Family Members: Support to the Emotional Bias Hypothesis

Yawning in neurology: a review

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