Chronic cough isn't all in your head -- only part of it is
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Like many other bodily functions, coughing is a complex phenomenon that is under both conscious and unconscious control. Coughing during an acute bronchitis or after inhaling a lungful of seawater is vigorous and involuntary. A slight tickle in the back of the throat that creeps up when we're on a first date or in a crowded theater, on the other hand, may or may not trigger a cough. The reasons lie in the complex neural interconnections between our chests, throats, and brains, a running conversation between lower-order reflex circuits (saying "Must! Cough! Now!") and our higher cortical brain functions (which might reply, "Dude! I'm talking to this girl.")
Chronic cough isn't all in your head -- only part of it is
Chronic cough isn't all in your head -- only…
Chronic cough isn't all in your head -- only part of it is
Like many other bodily functions, coughing is a complex phenomenon that is under both conscious and unconscious control. Coughing during an acute bronchitis or after inhaling a lungful of seawater is vigorous and involuntary. A slight tickle in the back of the throat that creeps up when we're on a first date or in a crowded theater, on the other hand, may or may not trigger a cough. The reasons lie in the complex neural interconnections between our chests, throats, and brains, a running conversation between lower-order reflex circuits (saying "Must! Cough! Now!") and our higher cortical brain functions (which might reply, "Dude! I'm talking to this girl.")