Unlike the cerebrospinal nervous system, with its obvious and indispensable functions, the vegetative nervous system has been slow to come into its own. Only recently has its representation in the spinal cord and medulla oblongata been recognized, and still more recently its important representation in the midbrain and hypothalamus. The case I shall present would suggest that there are higher structures analogous to the cerebral motor cortex which are capable of producing, when irritated, paroxysmal motor discharges through the vegetative nervous system, similar to the focal discharges through the cerebrospinal system first described by Hughlings Jackson as epileptic. REPORT OF CASE History. —J. H., a woman, aged 41, entered the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, on Jan. 2, 1928, having been referred to me by Dr. Protzman of Englewood, N. J. She had had headaches ever since an accident to her head at the age of 5 years. The headaches were
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Wilder Penfield (1929) studied this question.