Proceedings of the Symposium on Neurological Basis of Behaviour, held July 2-4, 1957 at the Ciba Foundation.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Early development of ideas relating the mind with the brain / H.W. Magoun -- The behaviour of nerve cells / J.C. Eccles -- The behaviour of chronically decerebrate cats / Philip Bard and Martin B. Macht -- An appraisal of the effects of diencephalic stimulation of conscious animals in terms of normal behaviour / B. Andersson, P.A. Jewell and S. Larsson -- The effects upon behaviour of lesions in the dorsomedial and anterior thalamic nuclei of cat and monkey / J.B. Brierley and Elisabeth Beck -- Correlated effects in behaviour and electrical brain activity evoked by stimulation of the reticular system, thalamus and rhinencephalon in the conscious animal / Marcel Monnier and R. Tissot -- Selective effects of drives and drugs on "reward" systems of the brain / J. Olds -- The rôle of the temporal cortex in recall of past experience and interpretation of the present / Wilder Penfield -- "The temporal lobe syndrome" produced by bilateral ablations / Heinrich Klüver -- Some basic mechanisms of the translation of bodily needs into behaviour / P.C. Dell -- Neurological basis of responses to stress / C.P. Richter -- The rhinencephalon and behaviour / John D. Green -- Neurological site of action of stilboestrol in eliciting sexual behaviour / G.W. Harris, R.P. Michael and Patricia P. Scott -- Some aspects of the neurophysiological basis of conditioned reflexes and behaviour / Henri Gastaut -- Patterns of cortical neuronal discharge during conditioned responses in monkeys / H. Jasper, G.F. Ricci and B. Doane -- The electrical activity of cortical neurones in relation to behaviour, as studied with microelectrodes in unrestrained cats / J.L. Malcolm -- Drug effects in relation to receptor specificity within the brain : some evidence and provisional formulation / J. Elkes -- Brain enzymes and adaptive behaviour / Mark R. Rosenzweig, David Krech and Edward L. Bennett -- The relevance of some neurophysiological data to behaviour disorders / S.L. Sherwood