The Changes of Hypothalamic Nuclei in Schizo- Phrenia . Waldemar Wahren

It is one of the fundamental problems of the researches on schizophrenia to find out those elements of the brain, which by deterioration cause the symptoms of schizophrenia . Some clinical experts, who, by studying vegetative phenomenons have got their concept of the nature of schizophrenia, think, that the central vegetative regions play a special and important part in causing schizophrenia . In the following investigation it shall be examined how far this supposition can be verified in the field of anatomy . In the early thirties HECHST has investigated the hypothalamus of persons suffering from schizophrenia without a . positive result.