Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![physical aspect of mental disease is concerned, when he wrote :*— Faults in the life breed errors in the brain ; And these, reciprocally, those again. Such, I think, is the play and inter¬ play between what are called psyche and soma. We need not, perhaps, pursue this train of thought farther, but if we enquire how organic changes can possi¬ bly be brought about in consequence of conscious or unconscious psychical states, we may find a link between brain and cord on the one hand, and between viscera and tissues on the other, not so much by way of “ trophic” centres, or centres representing vis¬ ceral activities, as by way of the sympathetic and parasympathetic sys¬ tems, their cerebral and spinal con¬ nections and their control—in corres¬ pondence with emotional and other states—of those vasomotor, secretory and muscular mechanisms that do [ 15 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
