Subject index, volumes I-III 



Volume I: pages 1-780 Volume II: pages 781— 1440 Volume III. pay •. ijji-ig<it> 



ACA ratio: see Accommodation 

 Acceleration stimuli : see I'.quilibi iuin 

 Accommodation, 654-656, 660-664 



ACA ratio 

 definition, 664 



accommodative convergence and, 664 



age and, 664 



convergence and, 662 



definition, 656 



drugs and, [654 



innervation controlling, 662 



lens and, 660 



limiting factor, 664 



mechanism, 660 



night myopia and, 664 



phoria and, 664 



pupils and, 66a 



refracting mechanism and, 655 



response to blur, 663 



Scheiner principle and, 659 



sky myopia and, 664 



threshold level and, 97 



with fixed stimulus, 660 



zero level, 659 

 Accommodative convergence : set Con- 

 vergence 

 Acctazoleamidc 



cerebrospinal fluid How and, 1886 

 Acetylcholine 



see also Cholinergic transmitter; Trans- 

 mitter substances; Curare; Neuro- 

 muscular transmission; Parasym- 

 pathin 



activity and neuron density, 1804 



arousal and, 1 79 



as pain excitant, 479 



as transmitter substance, 139, 155, 166, 

 179, 230, 200, 1 138 

 in coronary vessels, 1 133-1 137 



as vasodilator, 1 748 



cerebellar activity and, 1255 



characteristics, 231 



competition with curare, 210 



depolarization and, 210 



electrically inexcitable membrane and, 



155 

 intermittent release, 207 



mode ol action. 2 10 

 mollusc muscle and, 248 

 reticular formation and, 1 289 

 sodium and, 210 

 substances blocking, 139 

 thermoreceptors and, 455 

 vasodilator responses after, 1 154 

 Mill ui Adrenocortical! ophic hor- 

 mone 

 Action potential 



see also Evoked potential 



abolition, 100 



absolute refractory period and, 308 



activity and, 378 



auditory nerve, 575 



axoplasm, longitudinal current and, 



103 

 current theories, 1 1 7 



excitability and, 00 



giant axon, 84 



junctional activity and, 205 



memlii ane 

 definition, 84 

 membrane potential, too 

 time course and, 103 



monophasic, 77 



muscle in invertebrates, 242 



nonlinear phenomena, 95 



polarizing current and, 1 1 2 



prolonged abolition, 101 



retina, 61 7 



sodium theory and, 1 18 



temporal relation to membrane cur- 

 rent, 104 

 Activity: see Motor activity 

 Adaptation 



w, also Scoptic adaptation 



definition, 1 25 



double pain and, 473 



in pain receptors and fibers, 468, 473 



in thermal receptors, 456 



retinal receptive fields and, 705 



taste sense and, 524 



to touch-pressure, 403 



vestibular mechanism and, 555 

 Adenohypophysis : see Anterior pituitar) 



Adrenal cortex 



activity after hypophysectomy, 1916 

 Adrenal cortical hormones 



central nervous system metabolism 

 and, i860 

 Adrenal medulla 



denervation and. (|(| j 

 Adrenal medullaiv hormones 

 central nervous system metabolism 



and. i860 

 nervous reflex activation of neuro- 

 hypophysis and, 1033 

 Adrenaline: tee Epinephrine 

 Adrenergic transmitter, 218-230 



also Epinephrine; Norepinephrine; 

 Dopamine, I sopropv I norepineph- 

 rine. Catecholamines; Transmitter 

 substances 

 Ihosv nthesis of, 220 jjj 

 characteristics, 218, 220 

 dopamine as. 22g 

 epinephrine as, [40, 1 70,, 218, 229 



exhaustibililv. 22J 

 identification of, 218-220 

 iproniazide and, 224 



isopiopylnorepinephrine as ., 

 other than norepinephrine, 228 



release, 222 



remote- effects, -'-'", 



remov al of, 227. 22R 



stimulus frequency and, 222 



storage, 221 

 Adrenocorticotrophic hormone 



body temperature control and, 1 189 



secretion 



central nervous system effects, 1008 

 dual theory of, 1020 

 external environment and, 1008 

 humoral control, 1013 

 hypothalamic lesions and, 1023 

 hypothalamic stimulation and, 1025 

 nature of active substance, 1055 

 neurohypophysis and, 1014 

 neurosecretion and, 1054, 1055 

 pituitary stalk section and, 1019, 



1020 

 transplantation and, 1019, 1020 



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