From the annual^ reports of the Somerset County Asylum for twenty years, mania, recurrent mania, monomania, and puerperal mania included nearly 53^ per cent, of the admissions of mental disorders; previously distinguished in the Journal, as belonging to the second class of cases of insanity. The actual numbers under the above forms of mania were 595 males and 712 females; from ordinary mania, f...

The first object is kept carefully in view throughout the book, and to compass it two chapters are devoted to the method of taking a case and the modes of examination employed. The author regards the difficulty of examining cases of nervous disease as much increased by the regional or anatomical mode of examination, and strongly advises the importance of using in all cases, except where the cra...

Ninth Edition. (Pp. 390; figs. 89. 30s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1958. Tiis moniograph has now attained its ninth edition in the space of eighteen years, a fact whiclh leaves one in no doubt of its popularity. As in previous editions, the book is divided into two parts. 'rle first is an admirably brief and lucid account of the principles of neurological diagnosis, and the sec...

System. By F. M. R. Walshe, O.B.E., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P. E. and S. Livingstone, Edinburgh. Price 12s. 6d. net, postage 8d. As this book is designed for Practitioners and Students it is permissible that it should be reviewed by one who is not a neurological specialist. And no comment or criticism will be made on the neurological statements that it contains. The method of presentation, however, ...

the human brain is composed of several interconnected, functionally distinct structures and much debate has surrounded the basic question of how these structures evolve. brain development begins in early gestation. between 4 weeks and 9 months, brain undergoes rapid development. there are six stages of nervous system development. brain increases connections between birth and 21 years of age. ab...