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Edited by Charles H. Hockman. Price, $28.50. Pp 283. Charles C Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Ill, 1972.

Fred Plum, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1972;27(2):190-191.

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Almost all symposium proceedings suffer from the fact that the organization and purposes of a conference are usually different from those of a permanent volume. This proceedings of a conference held at the University of Toronto suffers somewhat from these limitations, although it is better than most, largely because of the distinguished nature of the participants and the importance of the subject. Thus, as Moruzzi points out in his introduction, hypothalamic integration influences far broader behavioral responses than those confined to the autonomic nervous system. The ways that these responses are influenced by other parts of the nervous system, and in turn influence other parts of the nervous system, become central to understanding man's medical problems in a complicated, metropolitan, industrialized society. The main value of the book lies in the ideas it opens up to the interested reader, for none of the articles is long enough or comprehensive enough . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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