Eighty-ninth annual report for the year 1948 / Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, near Gloucester.

  • Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders.
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[1949]
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Credit: Eighty-ninth annual report for the year 1948 / Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, near Gloucester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were studied also on other amino-acids, with the result that interesting and new facts on the sub¬ ject have been discovered. These results form the subject of a paper which will be published shortly. I have collaborated with Mrs. Bassett in a statistical study of the data which she has obtained on the effects of leucotomy on creative ability. We have found that this higher mental function in un¬ impaired by leucotomy. The finding is of some importance, partly because no previous evidence was available on this subject, and partly because the therapy may be more widely available now that it has been established that the operation has no directly adverse effect on this important higher function. I have also continued my work on integrative cortical mechanisms. An apparatus, constructed to demonstrate certain principles, was exhibited at the meeting of the Electro-encephalographic Society on May 1st at the Burden Neurological Institute where it aroused much interest. A description of the apparatus has been published (Electronic Engineer¬ ing, 21’ 379, Dec. 1948) and a brief account was broadcast by the B.B.C.