CONTENTS: February, 1891. Vol. III. No. 4.
AUTOMATIC MUSCULAR MOVEMENTS AMONG THE INSANE; THEIR
PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE. By C. P. Bancroft.
ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME. By Herbert Nichols.
ON THE RECOVERY OF STIMULATED GANGLION CELLS. By C. F. Hodge.
PSYCHOLOGICAL LITERATURE. The Nervous System—by H. H.
Donaldson; Psychiatry—by William Noyes—Experimental;
Miscellaneous.
CONTENTS: April, 1891. Vol. IV. No. 1.
ARITHMETICAL PRODIGIES. By E. W. Scripture.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME. By Herbert Nichols.
PSYCHOLOGICAL LITERATURE: Cerebral Localisation. By Henry H.
Donaldson; Notes on Models of the Brain. By H. H. Donaldson;
A Laboratory Course in Physiological Psychology. By E. C.
Sanford; Contemporary Psychologists—Prof. Edward Zeller. By
The Editor.
It is pointed out by Dr. Bancroft that the close relationship between automatic muscular movement and the inhibitory power renders a study of the latter essential to a complete understanding of the subject of automaticity in health and disease. The inhibitory power is intimately associated with all the higher faculties, and as it must, in common with them, seek expression through functional activity of the cerebral cortex, functional or organic disturbance of this region should be attended by disordered inhibition. In many cases of insanity that portion of the brain that "originates the will impulse" is cut off by reason of organic or functional disturbance, and consequently the areas that lie nearer the centrifugal nerves are left to act independently of will and inhibition. The development of mechanical attitudes among the chronic insane is illustrated by a plate exhibiting two cases of melancholia with stupor and two cases of chronic dementia.