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A Theory concerning the Physical Conditions of the Nervous System which are Necessary for the Production of States of Melancholia, Mania, etc.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

John Turner
John Turner*
Affiliation:
Essex County Asylum
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Very perplexing to the student of insanity is the question as to how states of exaltation or depression arise. On the physical side to what changes in the nervous system do they correspond? And are these changes localised in different parts of the nervous system in mania and in melancholia; and, if so, what is the site whose disarrangement issues in exaltation or depression?

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 46 , Issue 194 , July 1900 , pp. 505 - 512
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1900 

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