The Nervous System and Electric Currents: Volume 2

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Radio Communication with the Brain....Pages 3-9
On the Penetration of UHF Energy Through the Head....Pages 11-14
Evaluation of Electrostimulation of Hearing by Evoked Potentials....Pages 15-18
Mechanisms of Electricity Conduction in Brain and Kidney Studied by Impedance Measurements and Chronopotentiometric Polarography....Pages 19-23
Bioelectric Potential Changes in Bone During Immobilization....Pages 25-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
A Neural Feedback Circuit Associated with Sleep-Waking....Pages 29-34
Autonomic Nervous Control of the Intrinsic Cardiac Pacemaker and Its Electronic Analogue Simulator....Pages 35-45
A Theoretical Analysis of RF Lesions Using Spherical Electrodes....Pages 47-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Period Analysis of the Clinical Electroencephalogram....Pages 55-56
Spectral Analysis of the EEG on the PDP-12....Pages 57-58
Period Analysis of the EEG on the PDP-12....Pages 59-59
Psychosynthesis: A TV-Cybernetic Hologram Model....Pages 61-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
The Effects of DC Current on Synaptic Endings....Pages 69-73
The Effect of Magneto-Inductive Energy on Reaction Time Performance....Pages 75-79
Effect of an Electromagnetic Field on the Sciatic Nerve of the Rat....Pages 81-85
A Theoretical Analysis of Neuronal Biogenerated Magnetic Fields....Pages 87-91
Polarization Changes Induced in the Pyramidal Cell and Other Neural Elements by Externally Applied Fields....Pages 93-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Design of Implantable Peripheral Nerve Stimulators....Pages 99-99
Electrical Stimulation of the Rabbit’s Aortic Nerve and the Dog’s Carotid Sinus Nerve: A Parameter Study....Pages 101-106
Muscle Response to Internal Stimulation of the Peroneal Nerve in Paraplegic Patients....Pages 107-108
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Threshold Distributions of Phrenic Nerve Motor Fibers: A Factor in Smooth Electrophrenic Respiration....Pages 109-110
Development of an Implantable Telestimulator....Pages 111-112
The Current Status of Dorsal Column Stimulation for Relief of Pain....Pages 113-113
Peripheral Nerve Regeneration by Electrical Stimulation....Pages 115-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
What’s Important in Safe Medical Electronics Instrumentation....Pages 119-119
Response to Passage of Sinusoidal Current Through the Body....Pages 121-129
Selective Differential Electrocardiographic Leads....Pages 131-137
Safety Factors in Bioelectric Impedance Measurements....Pages 139-141
Standardization Committee on Bioelectrical Impedance Measurements....Pages 143-144
Limit Current Density of Safe Tissue Exposure....Pages 145-145
Problems in the Clinical Interpretation of Impedance Plethysmogram and Rheoencephalogram....Pages 147-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
A Qualitative Description of the Electrosleep Experience....Pages 153-155
Electrosleep, Hypnosis and Auditory Evoked Potentials to Words, A New Psychological Approach....Pages 157-157
Electrosleep: Some Interesting Case Reports....Pages 159-162
Some Psychophysiologic Effects of Electrical Transcranial Stimulation (Electrosleep)....Pages 163-167
Electrosleep Enhanced by Intravenous Lidocaine....Pages 169-173
Electronic Noise in Cerebral Electrotherapy....Pages 175-180
Wireless Electrostimulation of the Brain (ESB)....Pages 181-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Obstetric Electro-Analgesia....Pages 189-193
Electro-Anesthesia for Electrical Cardio-Version....Pages 195-196
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Rectangular Electroanesthesia Currents and the Primary Visual Pathways....Pages 197-204
Electro-Anesthesia: By a New Portable Battery Powered Device....Pages 205-207
Mechanisms of Electro-Analgesia....Pages 209-215
Effect of Electroanesthesia upon Circulating Serotonin....Pages 217-218
Surgical Experiences with Electroanesthesia....Pages 219-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-228