Bibliography - Sympathetic nervous system


Bibliography

Experimental and Clinical Studies on the Sympathetic Nerve System



Electrical Resistance of the Skin Galvanic Skin Reflex

A. Electrical Resistance of the Skin

Richter, C. P. The sweat glands studied by the electrical skin resistance method. Am. J. Physiol. 68: 147, 1924.

Richter, C. P. A study of the electrical skin resistance and the psychogalvanic reflex in a case of unilateral sweating. Brain 50: 216, 1927.

Richter, C. P. The electrical skin resistance. Arch. Neurol. & Psychiat. 19: 488, 1928.

Syz, H. C. and Kinder, E. F. Electrical resistance in normal and psychotic subjects. Arch. Neurol. & Psychiat. 19: 1026, 1928.

Richter, C. P. Physiological factors involved in the electrical resistance of the skin. Am. J. Physiol. 88: 596, 1929.

Richter, C. P. Nervous control of electrical resistance of the skin. Bull. Johns Hopk. Hosp. 45: 56, 1929.

Richter, C.P. High electrical resistance of the skin in new-born infants and its significance. Am. J. Dis. Child. 40: 18, 1930.

Tower, S. S. and Richter, C. P. Injury and repair within the sympathetic nervous system. I. The preganglionic neurons. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 26: 485, 1931.

Tower, S. S. and Richter, C. P. Injury and repair within the sympathetic nervous system. II. The postganglionic neurons. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 28: 1139, 1932.

Tower, S. S. and Richter, C. P. Injury and repair within the sympathetic nervous system. III. Evidence of activity of postganglionic sympathetic neurons independent of the central nervous system. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 28: 1149, 1932.

Levine, M. Measurement of electrical skin resistance. Arch Neurol. and Psychiat. 29: 828, 1933.

Richter, C. P. and Levine, M. Sympathectomy in man. Its effect on the electrical resistance of the skin. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 38: 756, 1937.

Richter, C. P. Changes produced by sympathectomy in the electrical resistance of the skin. Trans. Am. Neurol. Assoc., 67th Meeting, p. 157, 1941.

Richter, C. P. and Woodruff, B. G. Changes produced by sympathectomy in the electrical resistance of the skin. Surgery, 10: 957, 1941.

Whelan, F. G. and Richter, C. P. Electrical skin resistance technique used to map areas of skin affected by sympathectomy and by other surgical or functional factors. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 49: 454, 1943.

Richter, C. P. and Katz , D. T. Peripheral nerve injuries determined by the electrical skin resistance method. I. Ulnar nerve. J.A.M.A. 122: 648, 1943.

Richter, C. P., Woodruff, B. G., and Eaton, B. C. Hand and foot patterns of low electrical skin resistance: their anatomical and neurological significance. J. Neurophysiol. 6: 417, 1943.

Richter, C. P. and Malone, P. D. Peripheral nerve lesion charts. J. Neurosurg. 2: 550, 1945.

Richter, C. P. and Otenasek, F. J. Thoracolumbar sympathectomies examined with the electrical skin resistance method. J. Neurosurg. 3: 120, 1946.

Bruesch, S. R. and Richter, C. P. Cutaneous distribution of peripheral nerve in Rhesus monkeys as determined by the electrical skin resistance method. Bull. Johns Hopk. Hosp. LXXVII: No. 4, 235, 1946.

Richter, C. P. Instructions for using the cutaneous resistance recorder, or "dermometer", on peripheral nerve injuries, sympathectomies and paravertebral blocks. J. Neurosurg. 3: 181, 1946.

Richter, C. P. Cutaneous area denervated by upper thoracic and stellate ganglionectomies determined by the electrical skin resistance method. J. Neurosurg. 4: 221, 1947.

Whelan, F. G. An instrument for use in measuring electrical resistance of the skin. Science 111: 496, 1950.

Wagner, H. N., Jr. Electrical skin resistance studies in two persons with congenital absence of sweat glands. Arch. Derm. & Syphil. 65: 543, 1952.

Richter, C. P. and Fries, J. F. Lung cancer. Detection by use of electrical skin resistance method. Arch. Int. Med. 113: 624-634, 1964.

Pain

Levine, M. and Richter, C. P. Periodic attacks of gastric pains accompanied with marked changes in electrical resistance of the skin. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 33: 1078, 1935.

Van Metre, T. E., Jr. Low electrical skin resistance in the region of pain in painful acute sinusitis. Bull. Johns Hopk. Hosp. 85: 409, 1949.

Riley, L. H., Jr. and Richter, C. P. Uses of the electrical skin resistance method in the study of patients with neck and upper extremity pain. Johns Hopk. Med. J. 137: 69-74, 1975.

Sleep

Richter, C. P. The significance of changes in the electrical resistance of the body during sleep. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 12: 214, 1926.

Richter, C. P. The pathologic sleep and similar conditions studied by the electrical skin resistance method. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 21: 363, 1929.

Levine, M. Electrical skin resistance during hypnosis. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 24: 937, 1930.

Richter, C. P. Sleep produced by hypnotics studied by the electrical skin resistance method. J. Pharm. & Exp. Therap. 4: 471, 1931.

Richter, C. P. and Woodruff, B. G. Facial patterns of electrical skin resistance - their relation to sleep, external temperature, hair distribution, sensory dermatomes and skin disease. Bull. Johns Hopk. Hosp. LXX: No. 5, 442, 1942.

B. Galvanic Skin Reflex

Wang, G. H., and Richter, C. P. Action currents from the pad of the cat's foot produced by stimulation of the tuber cinereum. Chinese J. Physiol. 2: 279, 1928.

Richter, C. P. Galvanic skin reflex from animals with complete transection of the spinal cord. Am. J. Physiol. 93: 468, 1930.

Richter, C. P. The galvanic skin-reflex in spinal animals. Proc. and Papers of the Ninth Internat. Cong. of Psychol. 357-358, 1929.

Langworthy, O. R. and Richter, C. P. The influence of efferent cerebral pathways upon the sympathetic nervous system. Brain 53: 178, 1930.

Levine, M. Psychogalvanic reaction to painful stimuli in hypnotics and hysterical anesthesia. Bull. Johns Hopk. Hosp. 46: 331, 1930.

Richter, C. P. and Shaw, M. B. Complete transections of the spinal cord at different levels. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 24: 1107, 1930.

Richter, C. P. and Whelan, F. G. Sweat glands response to sympathetic stimulation studied by the galvanic skin reflex method. J. Neurophysiol. 6: 191, 1943.

Patton, H. D. Sympathetic innervation of the cat's footpad. Fed. Proc. 6: 1947, March.

Patton, H. D. Secretory innervation of the cat's footpad. J. Neurophysiol. 11: 217, 1948.

Bordley, J. E., Hardy, W. G., and Richter, C. P. Audiometry with the use of the galvanic skin resistance response. Bull. Johns Hopk. Hosp. 82: No. 5, 569, 1948.

Richter, C. P. and Whelan, F. G. Description of a skin galvameter that gives a graphic record of activity in the sympathetic nervous system. J. Neurosurg. 6: 279, 1949.

King, A. B. and Richter, C. P. Spinal subdural abscess due to a congenital dermal sinus and accompanying changes in the autonomic nervous system. Bull. Johns Hopk. Hosp. 85: 431, 1949.

Wagner, H. N., Jr. Objective testing of vision with use of the galvanic skin response. Arch. Ophthalmology 43: 529, 1950.

Wang, G. H. Brainstem reticular system and galvanic skin reflex. Fed. Proc. 14: 158, 1955.

Wang, G. H. Galvanic skin reflex after acute spinal transection in normal and decerebrate cats. Fed. Proc. 15: 196, 1956.

Wang, G. H., Stein, P., and Brown, V. W. Effects of transections of central neuraxis on galvanic skin reflex in anesthetized cats. J. Neurophysiol. 19: 340, 1956.

Wang, G. H., Stein, P., and Brown, V. W. Brainstem reticular system and galvanic skin reflex in acute decerebrate cats. J. Neurophysiol. 19: 350, 1956.

Wang, G. H. and Brown, V. W. Changes in galvanic skin reflex after acute spinal transection in normal and decerebrate cats. J. Neurophysiol. 19: 446, 1956.

Wang, G. H. and Brown, V. W. Supra segmental inhibition of an automobile reflex. J. Neurophysiol. 19: 564, 1956.

Wang, G. H. Terminal rebound of galvanic skin reflex in anesthetized cats. J. Neurophysiol. 20: 340, 1957.

Wang, G. H. SPECIAL REVIEW - The galvanic skin reflex. A review of old and recent works from a physiologic point of view. Part I. Am. J. Physical Med. 36: 295, 1957.

Wang, G. H. SPECIAL REVIEW - The galvanic skin reflex. A review of old and recent works from a physiologic point of view. Part II. Am. J. Physical Med. 37: 35, 1958.

Wang, G. H. Strychninization of bulbar ventromedial reticular formation and galvanic skin reflex in thalamic cats. J. Neurophysiol. 21: 327, 1958.

Wang, G. H. Effects of asphyxia on galvanic skin reflex before and after spinal transection. J. Neurophysiol. 22: 98, 1959.

Wang, G. H. and Akert, K. Behavior and reflexes of chronic striatal cats. Arch. Ital. Biol. 100: 48, 1962.

Syz, H. C. Psychogalvanic studies on sixty-four medical students. Brit. J. Psychol. 17: 54, 1926.

Syz. H. C. Observations on the unreliability of subjective reports of emotional reactions. Brit. J. Psychol. 17: 119, 1926.

Syz, H. C. Psychogalvanic studies in schizophrenia. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 16: 747, 1926.

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