Tremors Threaten Holy—bridge

Reviews the books, Essentials of Physiological Psychology by Francis Leukel (1978) and Physiological Psychology. 2nd ed by Marvin Schwartz (1978). Leukel and Schwartz, each in his way, have brought out a revised version of their textbooks in physiological psychology: both clinging more strongly to their traditional psychological anchor points, both seemingly determined to maintain the structures that were created with enthusiasm in the 1960s, and both tentatively seeking contact with selected features of the new neuroscience. The catecholamine systems are openly espoused in both volumes. Both books are sincere attempts to teach at about the second-year level-- Schwartz being more suited to a longer course and Leukel to a short course. Unfortunately, both books seem content to present a modern phrenology in which one psychological entity resides mysteriously in this particular neural system and another resides somehow in that. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)