LABORATORY AND BRANCH RESEARCH REVIEWS 115Laboratory of Neurophysiology,
NIMH-NINDB
Wade H. Marshall, a physiologist trained at the University of Chicago
by Ralph Gerard, had been conducting neurophysiological research in
the Laboratory of Physical Biology within the Institute of Experimen
tal Biology and Medicine.^1 When he joined the NIMH-NINDB’s joint
intramural basic research program, his became the first joint laboratory
in the program. His laboratory would focus on the function of the ner
vous system, specifically neural transmission and neuronal interactions,
the cerebral cortex, and special senses, in an attempt to understand
physiological phenomena occurring in the nervous system that would
mediate behavior.^2
Walter H. Freygang, Jr., Ph.D.
Laboratory Member
Courtesy of the National Institute
of Mental Health
Five sections were created within this joint laboratory during the
1950s: Spinal Cord Physiology and Special Senses within the NINDB,
and General Neurophysiology, Cortical Integration, and Limbic
Integration and Behavior within the NIMH.^3 Marshall’s Section on