Stanley Cobb

Preliminary Observations on Mental Disturbances Occurring in Patients under Therapy with Cortisone and ACTH

IT HAS become increasingly apparent, during the past year, that mental disturbances are a not uncommon complication of therapy with cortisone and ACTH. It was initially observed that mild euphoria ...

Psychosomatic study of 46 young men with coronary artery disease.

i H E HYPOTHESIS that definite patterns of personality dysfunction are associated with specific psychosomatic disorders has been widely entertained during the last decade. With respect to coronary artery disease certain correlations have been generally recognized. For example, the severity of anginal pain may be influenced considerably by the emotional state of the patient, and acute coronary occlusion with myocardial infarction can be precipitated by a severe emotional crisis. Thus a patients life expectancy may depend upon his capacity to deal with life stresses and his psychologic adjustment to the illness. However, both angina pectoris and coronary occlu-

Further observations on mental disturbances associated with cortisone and ACTH therapy.

A PREVIOUS paper described in detail the clinical and laboratory aspects of 10 cases in which mental disturbances of varying severity developed during treatment with cortisone or ACTH.1 The primary...

The effect of advancing age upon the human spinal cord

text has two parts : superbly illustrated in the first are the morphological alterations attributable to age itself, as seen in the human spinal cord by decades throughout life; illustrated in finest fashion in the second is the segmental, cytological topography of the normal human spinal cord. The authenticity of this atlas is derived from the distinguished careers of its authors and from detailed studies by them of a very large quantity of postmortem material. The literary style is direct, factual, and concise. An adequate bibliography is included. The book is printed on smooth, glossy paper and in a general format that makes it enjoyable to read. It can be highly recommended to the attention of all concerned with the structure and function of the nervous system. F. Stephen Vogel, M.D.

A Note on the Size of the Avian Olfactory Bulb

Measurements of the longest diameters of the olfactory bulbs and cerebral hemispheres of 46 species of birds are presented. These are compared in each species so that the relative size of the bulb is expressed in per cent of the diameter of the hemisphere. The relatively smallest bulbs are found in Passeriformes, Psittaciformes and Piciformes. The largest are in the Podicipediformes and Procellariiformes. Relatively large bulbs appear to be positively correlated with large hippocampal areas in the brain and aquatic habitat. Relatively small bulbs correlate with small hippocampal areas and tree living.

Blood Pressure and Subarctic Climate in the Soviet Union

Broadbents formulation is explicitly based on the concepts and language of information theory. The reviewer believes that such language should be employed freely in psychosomatic medicine because the one thing that is common to the psyche and to the soma and that can cross the barrier between the physiological and the psychological is information. If psychological functional relationships can be described clearly and accurately in this kind of language, the physiologist can seek similar patterns in the functions of the sense organs and the nervous system. Information theory applies to human observers, to nervous systems, and to electronic computers alike. Its generalizations are as powerful as the laws of thermodynamics, which have united physics, chemistry, and biology in a single conceptual system.

Bulbokapninkatalepsie und Lokalanästhesie bei Großhirnoperationen im Tierversuch

ZusammenfassungFür Großhirnoperationen im Tierversuch empfiehlt sich Bulbokapnin 0,025–0,035 pro kg Tier subcutan und 1 proz. Novocainlösung als Lokalanästhesie. Es ist jedoch nötig, zunächst unter Äthernarkose temporär die Carotiden zu verschließen: