xiv CONTENTS 



General Discussion 151 



Summation by Chairman 



By Samuel P. Hicks 157 



Part II. Histopathological Changes Resulting from the 

 Irradiation of the Nervous System 



Basic Problems in the Histopathology of Radiation of the Central 

 Nervous System 



By Orville T. Bailey 165 



Sequence of X-Radiation Damage in Mouse Cerebellum 



By NoRBERT Schummelfeder 191 



Morphological EfTect of Repeated Low Dosage and Single High 

 Dosage AppHcation of X-Irradiation to the Central Nerv- 

 ous System 



By Willibald Scholtz, Wolfgang Schlote, and Wolf- 

 gang HiRSCHBERGER 211 



A Demyelinating or Malacic Myelopathy and Myodegeneration — 

 Delayed Effect of Localized X-LTadiation in Experimental 

 Rats and Monkeys 



By J. R. M. Innes and A. Carsten 233 



EflFects of High-Dose Gamma Radiation on the Brain and on 

 Individual Neurons 



By F. Stephen Vogel 249 



Electron Microscope Observations on the X-Irradiated Central 

 Nervous System of the Syrian Hamster 



By H. Hager, W. Hirschberger, and A. Breit 261 



Bioelectric EfTects of High Energy Irradiation on Nerve 



By C. T. Gaffey 277 



Morphologic and Pathophysiologic Signs of the Response of the 

 Nervous System to Ionizing Radiation 



By N. I. Grashchenkov : 297 



General Discussion 315 



Chairman's Summation 



By Webb Haymaker 321 



Part III. Particle Irradiation of the 

 Central Nervous System 



The Use of Accelerated Heavy Particles for Production of Radiole- 

 sions and Stimulation in the Central Nervous System 



By Cornelius A. Tobias 325 



