Biological Order and Brain Organization

Section I Biological Order and Human Society Function and Neural Regulation of Internal Organs.- 1 Biological Order and Human Society.- 2 Function and Neural Regulation of Internal Organs.- Section II Hemodynamics, Physiological Optics, Neurohumoral Transmission.- 3 Blood Circulation and Finality.- 4 A New Examination Method for Diplopia.- 5 Direct Stereoscopic Photographs.- 6 The Effect of Acetylcholine on Skeletal Muscle.- Section III Vegetative Nervous System and Psychic Functions, Sleep, Hypothalamic Syndromes.- 7 The Reciprocal Relations Between Psychic and Vegetative Functions.- 8 Sleep.- 9 The Sleep Syndrome as Elicited by Diencephalic Stimulation.- 10 Hypothalamic Adynamia.- 11 The Subcortical Center of the Affective Defense Reaction (with M. Brügger).- Section IV Organization of Motor Systems.- 12 Critical Considerations on the Concept of a Nervous Center.- 13 Critique of the Hering-Breuer Theory of Self-regulation of Respiration.- 14 The Nature of the Movements Elicited by Electrical Stimulation of the Diencephalon.- 15 The Biomotor System as an Organization Problem.- 16 Teleokinetic and “Ereismatic” Mechanisms and Biomotor Functions.- 17 Motor Functions of Tectal and Tegmental Areas (with S. Bürgi and V. Bucher).- Section V Biography and Bibliography.- 18 Biographical Data: Walter Rudolf Hess.- 19 From Medical Practice to Theoretical Medicine: An Autobiographic Sketch.- 20 Bibliography of Writings 1903–1973.