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...brain of a single monkey, Dr. Delgado has found that by passing a current through different parts of the cortex, he can stimulate a resting monkey to raise his paws, scratch himself, turn around, yawn, or start trying to catch imaginary insects. In some monkeys he stimulated the lateral hypothalamus for an hour a day, and the animals ate up to ten times as much as usual. A few days after stimulation is stopped, the monkeys' appetites go back to normal. The seat of a monkey's love for bananas evidently is deep in the frontal lobe...
...Jolliffe locates the appestat in the hypothalamus, site of the body's temperature-control, water balance and sleep-control mechanisms. It may be thrown out of kilter by injury or disease. But where there is no physical explanation for the appestat's demanding too much fuel, Dr. Jolliffe believes that the answer must be found in habit or conditioning. And it takes "time for habits to be overcome. "Eventually, however," he says, "if the reducer is conscientious, exerts his will power, and is, above all, a good sport, the appestat will usually return to a lower level...
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...