Chronophobia By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 Prisoners and old people are most likely to suffer from chronophobiaChronophobia is a specific psychological phobia which manifests itself as a persistent, abnormal and unwarranted fear of time or of the passing of time. A related but much rarer phobia is chronomentrophobia, the irrational fear of clocks and watches. Symptoms Like many other phobias, the main symptoms include panic, unease, depression, anxiety, and often a feeling of claustrophobia...

Biopsychology By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 The way we sense and perceive time is essentially a construction of the brainTime is not directly perceived, and so time perception is essentially a construction of the brain, which can therefore be manipulated and distorted in various ways (see the section on Temporal Illusions). Biopsychology, also sometimes known as behavioural neuroscience or psychobiology, studies the way the brain (at the level of nerves, neurotransmitters, brain circuitry a...

Biological Clock By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 The brain’s biological or circadian clock is entrained by external cues like the light/dark cycleWe have various metabolic processes within our bodies that are to some extent “clock-like” (i.e. repetitive and predictable – see the section on Clocks), e.g. heart beats, breathing, etc. But these processes are dependent on other conditions and stimuli, both internal and external, and are not reliably regular (e.g. heartbeats and breathing rates can...