James Arthur Miller (1944–2015)

In memoriam: James A. Miller (1915-2000).

Please also refer to the excellent obituaries written by Miriam Poirier in Carcinogenesis and by Allan Conney in Cancer Research.

Tragedy and the Common Man by Arthur Miller

In this age few tragedies are written. It has often been held that the lack is due to a paucity of heroes among us, or else that modern man has had the blood drawn out of his organs of belief by the skepticism of science, and the heroic attack on life cannot feed on an attitude of reserve and circumspection. For one reason or another, we are often held to be below tragedy-or tragedy above us. T...

James Arthur Lecture on the Evolution of the Human Brain

Fifty - Second James Arthur Lecture on the Evolution of the Human Brain

Karl Pribram, the James Arthur Lectures, and What Makes Us Human

Scientific and popular lore have promulgated a connection between emotion and the limbic forebrain. However, there are a variety of structures that are considered limbic, and disagreement as to what is meant by "emotion". This essay traces the initial studies upon which the connection between emotion and the limbic forebrain was based and how subsequent experimental evidence led to confusion bo...