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" Biological Order and Brain Organization : "
edited by Konrad Akert.
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BL
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720972
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b540676
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edited by Konrad Akert.
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Biological Order and Brain Organization : : Selected Works of W.R. Hess\ edited by Konrad Akert.
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Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1981
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364267948X
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: 3642679501
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: 9783642679483
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: 9783642679506
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Section I Biological Order and Human Society Function and Neural Regulation of Internal Organs --;1 Biological Order and Human Society --;2 Function and Neural Regulation of Internal Organs --;Section II Hemodynamics, Physiological Optics, Neurohumoral Transmission --;3 Blood Circulation and Finality --;4 A New Examination Method for Diplopia --;5 Direct Stereoscopic Photographs --;6 The Effect of Acetylcholine on Skeletal Muscle --;Section III Vegetative Nervous System and Psychic Functions, Sleep, Hypothalamic Syndromes --;7 The Reciprocal Relations Between Psychic and Vegetative Functions --;8 Sleep --;9 The Sleep Syndrome as Elicited by Diencephalic Stimulation --;10 Hypothalamic Adynamia --;11 The Subcortical Center of the Affective Defense Reaction (with M. Brügger) --;Section IV Organization of Motor Systems --;12 Critical Considerations on the Concept of a Nervous Center --;13 Critique of the Hering-Breuer Theory of Self-regulation of Respiration --;14 The Nature of the Movements Elicited by Electrical Stimulation of the Diencephalon --;15 The Biomotor System as an Organization Problem --;16 Teleokinetic and "Ereismatic" Mechanisms and Biomotor Functions --;17 Motor Functions of Tectal and Tegmental Areas (with S. Bürgi and V. Bucher) --;Section V Biography and Bibliography --;18 Biographical Data: Walter Rudolf Hess --;19 From Medical Practice to Theoretical Medicine: An Autobiographic Sketch --;20 Bibliography of Writings 1903-1973.
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His concepts concern- ing organization and order in physiology and his views on the important role of the vegetative nervous system in regulating the activity of the central ner- vous system are of great interest to science and medicine and were in many respects far in advance of his time.
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Medicine.
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Neurosciences.
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