Neuroendocrinology
- 28 November 1963
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 269 (22), 1182-1191
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196311282692206
Abstract
A THREAD of neuroendocrine theory runs through much of the history of medical science: emotional states were once identified with the Galenic humors, choler, bile and phlegm; Vesalius viewed the third ventricle, infundibulum ("funnel") of the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland as the pathway by which animal spirits drained to form nasal mucus ("pituita"); and the Cartesian interpretation of the mind-body problem centered upon a pineal soul. These early speculations provide a literary if not rigorous approach to the subject. Modern views of neuroendocrine relations had to await modern ideas of endocrine function dominated by the pituitary gland as "conductor . . .Keywords
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