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Biological Order and Brain Organization

Selected Works of W.R.Hess

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Konrad Akert

    1. Physiologisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Biological Order and Human Society Function and Neural Regulation of Internal Organs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Biological Order and Human Society

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 3-15

    3. Function and Neural Regulation of Internal Organs

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 17-32

  3. Hemodynamics, Physiological Optics, Neurohumoral Transmission

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Blood Circulation and Finality

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 35-53

    3. A New Examination Method for Diplopia

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 55-59

    4. Direct Stereoscopic Photographs

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 61-65

    5. The Effect of Acetylcholine on Skeletal Muscle

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 67-68

  4. Vegetative Nervous System and Psychic Functions, Sleep, Hypothalamic Syndromes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. The Reciprocal Relations Between Psychic and Vegetative Functions

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 71-113

    3. Sleep

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 115-129

    4. The Sleep Syndrome as Elicited by Diencephalic Stimulation

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 131-169

    5. Hypothalamic Adynamia

      • W. R. Hess
      Pages 171-181

    6. The Subcortical Center of the Affective Defense Reaction

      • W. R. Hess, M. Brügger
      Pages 183-202
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About this book

The centennial of his birthday (17 March 1881) prompted the publi­ cation of the Selected Works of Walter Rudolf Hess. Although English translation of several of his monographs have appeared, none of his orig­ inal papers has ever been published in the English language. During his sci­ entific career, Hess made pioneering contributions in the field of hemo­ dynamics, pyhsiological optics, oculomotor diagnostics, regulation of cir­ culation, respiration and temperature, and finally on the somatomotor, vis­ ceral, and emotional functions of the diencephalon. His concepts concern­ ing organization and order in physiology and his views on the important role of the vegetative nervous system in regulating the activity of the central ner­ vous system are of great interest to science and medicine and were in many respects far in advance of his time. These concepts continue a line of thought which was upheld by such famous physiologists as Xavier Bichat, Claude Bernard, and Walter B. Cannon. Indeed, Walter Rudolf Hess has become one of the rare figures in the recent history of physiology willing to carry out an integrative analysis of bodily functions and to search for the basic principles of regulation and interaction between regulatory systems. In fact, he anticipated such ideas in biology as feedback control and ser­ vomechanisms long before these notions evolved in the field of engineering and electronics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Physiologisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Konrad Akert

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biological Order and Brain Organization

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Works of W.R.Hess

  • Editors: Konrad Akert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67948-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-67950-6Published: 07 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67948-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 350

  • Topics: Neurology, Neurosciences

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