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The Clinical Investigation of the Autonomic Nervous System in Fifty Cases of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Muriel L. M. Northcote*
Affiliation:
Cardiff City Mental Hospital

Extract

The scope of this work is to show the variations in blood-pressure and pulse, together with the secretory and vaso-motor changes, resulting from injections of adrenaline and pilocarpine. The response of certain reflexes is also recorded.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1929 

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