Mind, Brain, Body, and Behavior

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Norman Goldstein, M.D.

Courtesy of the National Institute of

Neurological Disorders and Stroke

an attempt to discover how quantifiable physiological events and behavior

were related, namely, “how disordered brain function contribute(d) to

the disorders of emotion and behavior,” especially in major psychoses.^6

The section investigated the effect of LSD on rhesus monkey behavior

and on EEG changes in psychotic depersonalization, especially when

compared to similar symptoms reported by patients with temporal lobe

foci and seizures.^7 In 1954, the role of LSD as a leading tool for investi­

gating neuropsychiatric phenomena was expanded in both the Sections

on Clinical Biochemistry and that of Clinical Physiology as they

investigated the electrical changes in the lateral geniculate body of the

cat and the anti-diuretic action that resulted from LSD administration.^8

Edward V. Evarts, M.D.

Courtesy of the National Institute

of Mental Health