| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 127 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Disease -- Arousal -- Parkinson's disease -- Schizophrenia -- Perception -- Hallucinations -- Vestibular system -- Temporal lobe epilepsy |
| Summary |
The symptoms of schizophrenia have generated interest for more than two centuries. How are they produced? Where do they come from? In this highly stimulating book, Dr Locke proposes a new basic mechanism to account for many of the findings in schizophrenia. His ideas are based on observations and experiments at a State Psychiatric Hospital where he was the director of a Neurological Unit for ten years. He was struck by an outstanding sign of schizophrenia which had not attracted attention in the classical literature. Schizophrenia patients, he noticed, were too alert, too attentive. If this hy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-121) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arousal (Physiology)
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Attention.
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Schizophrenia -- Physiological aspects.
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Schizophrenia -- physiopathology.
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Arousal.
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Schizophrenic Psychology.
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Vestibule, Labyrinth -- physiopathology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1283148382 |
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9781283148382 |
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9789814299633 (electronic bk.) |
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9814299634 (electronic bk.) |
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