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Cannon, Walter Bradford (1871–1945)


Walter Cannon
American physiologist who studied the regulation of hunger and thirst in animals, introduced the term homeostasis to describe the ability of an organism to maintain its internal environment, and proposed a theory that placed the seat of emotions in the thalamus of the brain.


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