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Part II. Physiologic Observations on the Human Thalamus

FRANK R. ERVIN, M.D.; VERNON H. MARK, M.D.

Arch Neurol. 1960;3(4):368-380.

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The use of chronically implanted electrodes for the treatment of pain accompanying terminal carcinoma¹ has made it possible to investigate some aspects of thalamic function in the unanesthetized human. Following the first use of the stereotactic technique in the human by Kirschner in Germany in 1933, the work of Spiegel and Wycis in this country and of such workers as Leksell in Sweden, Riechert and Hassler in Germany, Talairach in France, and Narabayashi in Japan has well demonstrated the value of this method, not only for the clinical goal of producing discrete lesions in intracerebral structures, but also for investigating those brain functions which can be revealed by direct electrical stimulation. The work of Heath and collaborators² in demonstrating the feasibility of utilizing electrodes left in situ for weeks or months makes it possible to apply in man the principles initiated by Hess during many years of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Boston

From the Department of Psychiatry and the Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and of Surgery, Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
Received for publication June 10, 1960.

Dr. Ervin is a Fellow of the Medical Foundation of Boston.

This study is supported by a grant from NINDB No. B-469 (C6), and in part by a grant from the United Cerebral Palsy Association, Inc., No. R-122-59.

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