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Book reviews be straightforward, for any stimulus applied to a young animal is liable to disturb a mother-child relationship, which itself may be important in the later results.Some clinicians know that it is possible voluntarily to affect autonomic functions, including heart rate, piloerection or sweating, but it is only recently that this control has been studied systematically, and has been shown to be capable of improvement with training.Some of this work is described.The book is directed primarily at advanced students and mature investigators, and many clinicians will put them- selves in the former category when reading this book.It gives promise of exciting discoveries but most are not yet forthcoming.
J. A. Simpson (1976) studied this question.