Word: hypothalamus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Koestler has had the project in mind for 20 years. For the last five, he has been reading himself up to date, and his new book's fat bibliography ranges from Archetypal Patterns in Poetry (by Maud Bodkin) to The Hypothalamus and Central Levels of Autonomic Function (by the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases). Unfortunately, Insight and Outlook is likely to be gobbledygook to the average reader and without much meat even for the most dogged philosopher...
...nervous system, Dr. Friedgood explained, affects the pituitary and hypothalamus glands, which, in turn, control the production of sex hormones. Hence a neurosis may well upset hormone production and produce sterility...
...Biologists "have discovered by experiments upon male guinea pigs that the seat of romance is in the hypothalamus"-which consequently should not be jarred...
Knox H. Finley, for electro-physiological studies on the hypothalamus and cerebrum...
Knox H. Finley, for a study of the significance of the rich capillary beds of the supra-optic and peraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus...