application.The author has now in hand a similar determination of proper motions of all stars fainter than the eighth magni- tude for which suitable data can be obtained from the earlier double star obser- vations of the Struves.
Back to table of contents Previous article Next article ARTICLENo AccessTHE RELATION OF MENTAL CONTENT TO NERVOUS ACTIVITYE. B. DelabarreE. B. DelabarrePublished Online:1 Apr 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.57.4.645AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail PDFThis content is only available as a PDF. Access content To read the fulltext, please use one of the options below to sign in or purchase access. Personal login Institutional Login Sign in via OpenAthens Purchase Save for later Item saved, go to cart PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry $35.00 Add to cart PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry Checkout Please login/register if you wish to pair your device and check access availability. Not a subscriber? Subscribe Now / Learn More PsychiatryOnline subscription options offer access to the DSM-5 library, books, journals, CME, and patient resources. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development. Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing [email protected] or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.). FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited ByNone Volume 57Issue 4 April 1901Pages 645-660 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 April 2006 Published in print 1 April 1901
Study of the emotions, in one way or another, has had a conspicuous place in the work carried on in the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.In this field of all others, perhaps, the investigator gains easiest access to the goal of physiological psychology-the determination, namely, of the quantitative and qualitative relations obtaining between those wonderful correlates, mind and body.That elementary organism, the amceba, when jarred by its environment or more directly stimulated, contracts and tends to take the spherical form.On the other hand, all its movements of self-gratification are processes of expansion or extension.This observable double tendency seems to be the type, almost symbolically expressed, of a deep biologic law which science has shown to exist with almost infinite adaptation to circumstances and habit, in every organism.Experiment proves that, like other impulses of the lower animals, it exists persistently in man.Professor Miinsterberg has advanced the hypothesis that stimuli which cause action of the extensor muscles are as a rule agreeable, while stimuli which cause action of the flexor muscles are as a rule disagreeable.This tendency we should nat-
