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By William S. Fields and Murdina M. Teuber, William S. Battersby, and Morris B. Bender. Price, $4.75. Pp. 142. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 38, Mass., 1960.

John W. Evans, M.D., Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1963;8(3):346.

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Somatosensory Changes After Penetrating Brain Wounds in Man.

By Josephine Semmes, Sidney Weinstein, Lila Ghent, and Hans-Lukas Teuber. Price, $4. Pp. 91. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 38, Mass., 1960.

These works report the findings at the Psychophysiological Laboratory, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, on a large group of men injured in World War II or the Korean War with defects resulting from penetrating wounds of the brain.

The first volume deals with the results of tests of pressure sensitivity, two-point discrimination, point localization, and sense of passive movement. Defects on these tests are correlated with one another, with other neurological disabilities, and with the locus of injury. A complete tabulation of the findings on each subject and of the statistical deviations is given in the index.

Most surprising is the finding that "sensation of the left hand is more diffusely represented in the contralateral hemisphere than that of the right hand." . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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