The Physiological Pathology of the Anterior Pituitary
- 1 July 1939
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science
- Vol. 85 (357), 619-648
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.85.357.619
Abstract
[In the physiology of the central nervous system, the hypothalamus has of recent years obtained a position of much enhanced importance. There is reason to believe that it has a determining influence on cortical function and evidence is not wanting that some psychotic conditions are associated with hypothalmic disturbance. It may well be that many forms of mental disorder are conditioned by a lesion of the hypothalamus. This close anatomical and physiological relationship between this area of the brain and the pituitary we think, therefore, cannot be over-emphasized. Dr. Max Reiss was asked by the Research Bureau to present a review of our present knowledge of the anterior pituitary, on which he is a recognized authority.]Keywords
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