Autonomic Regulation A New Evaluation

Reviews the book, Principles of Autonomic-Somatic Integrations: Physiological Basis and Psychological and Clinical Implications by Ernst Gellhorn (1967). This book deals with the basic physiological processes to clinical and behavioral aspects of autonomic regulation. The author explores the relationships between ergotropic system, trophotropic system and their central neural controls in sleep and waking, in conditioning, in experimental neurosis and anxiety, and in a host of other behavioral manifestations. This is the book--a mature organization of the evidence for interaction of autonomic and somatic neural systems. The author has continued his great service to students of behavior by this essay. It should serve as a stimulus to renewed research interest in the area of autonomic influences on behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)