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formation and physiological events occurring in a primary sensory area
as elucidated by the effects of sleep, narcotic and ataractic drugs, and
the interruption of sensory input; 5) the characterization and extensive
purification of a brain protein acting as an antigen in the production
of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis; and 6) cerebral blood flow
or oxygen consumption in healthy, elderly males.^26 This last area formed
part of a multidisciplinary project that also involved the Laboratory of
Psychology and the Laboratory of Socio-Environmental Studies and
the Biometrics Branch. The project assessed aging in 50 healthy adults
over the age of 65, living in the community, by way of extensive psy­
chiatric, psychological, physiological, and sociological measures, and
published its findings in an important volume titled Human Aging.^27

Notes

1. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1955. The Psychosomatic Medicine Branch
   was formerly known as the Psychosomatic Service.


2. Until then the studies were conducted on outpatients or on patients
   hospitalized at the Clinical Center by other institutes.


3. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1953.


4. Ibid.


5. Ibid.


6. Ibid., 20.


7. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1953.


8. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1954.


9. Ibid., 1.


10. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1954.


11. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1955.


12. See Cohen’s chapter, this volume, for information on Axelrod’s recruitment
    and his work leading to the Nobel Prize.


13. See the Laboratory of Neurochemistry review for further information.


14. The Section on Cerebral Metabolism was added after Kety became head
    of the laboratory in late 1956.


15. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1956.


16. Edward V. Evarts, NIMH Annual Report, 1956; Kety, NIMH Annual Reports,
    1957 and 1959.


17. Cohen, NIMH Annual Reports, 1955 and 1956.


18. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1955.


19. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1956.


20. Ibid.


21. Ibid.