homeostatic

The need for sleep is so basic that a second system -- called the homeostatic sleep drive -- monitors how much the body has had and sends out a powerful drowsiness signal if it needs more.

Learning to Live 2008

We do, in part, and this effect is caused by the so-called homeostatic drive, one of the two main factors influencing sleepiness and alertness.

Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006

We do, in part, and this effect is caused by the so-called homeostatic drive, one of the two main factors influencing sleepiness and alertness.

Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006

Walter Cannon, going back to Claude Bernard, emphasized that the health and even the very existence of the body depends on what are called homeostatic processes ... that is, the apparent equilibrium of life is an active equilibrium, in which each deviation from the norm brings on a reaction in the opposite direction, which is of the nature of what we call negative feedback

ENVIRONMENT REN 1968

Going from the lowest level to the top, the first level of needs, survival and physiological, are things like breathing, food, water, sleep, homeostatic which is the ability of an organism to maintain an internal equilibrium, and excursion.

Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: Psychology of Self Actualization Roya R. Rad 2010

Going from the lowest level to the top, the first level of needs, survival and physiological, are things like breathing, food, water, sleep, homeostatic which is the ability of an organism to maintain an internal equilibrium, and excursion.

Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: Psychology of Self Actualization 2010

Going from the lowest level to the top, the first level of needs, survival and physiological, are things like breathing, food, water, sleep, homeostatic which is the ability of an organism to maintain an internal equilibrium, and excursion.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

The word "homeostatic," adopted in cybernetics for feedback systems in general, originated in 1920s human physiology to name self-regulation of body fluids, digestion, and metabolism. [

Minding the Brain Hacking, Ian 2004

A living thing, a self, is a homeostatic system, a system constantly being disrupted by exterior forces and internal requirements for refueling and maintenance, constantly seeking to stabilise itself, to return to equilibrium, but also relishing the instability -- because that tension is life.

Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy Hal Duncan 2009

This sort of balance of affects in the aim of functioning as a social human being is pretty much the definition of mental health, whereas pathologies are pretty much defined by how that homeostatic system goes wrong, in vicious cycles of bad affect-logic that render one socially dysfunctional.

Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy Hal Duncan 2009