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Pathogenesis and treatment of headache
GORDON J. MOGENSON:
New Jersey
Tlw
nrurohidoqy
BOOK
REVIEWS
q/‘hchacior.
An iurroducrwl.
Lawrence
Erlbaum
Associates.
Hillsdale.
(1977). 334 pp. f 10.75.
Motivational concepts play a large part in the analysis of behavrour. includmg abnormal behavtour. and much of motivation has a biological origin. This book conveniently brings together information on motivational areas associated with thermoregulatory behaviour. feeding. drinking. and sexual behaviour. sleeping and waking. brain self-stimulation. and emotional behaviours. The informatton given is up-to-date. readably presented. and possibly of use to behaviour therapists in giving them information about recent advances in these fields that they may have missed. The book will also undoubtedly be of considerable use to students with an interest in the biological determinants of behaviour. A possible criticism of the book is that it does not deal with such factors as conditioning, ‘preparedness’. personality (insofar as differences in personality are determined by neurobiological factors) and the like. Nor is there any discussion of what Berlyne has called ‘collative’ factors in behavtour. some of which are also known to have neurobiological determinants. With the exceptions of these omissions. this is an excellent book which fulfills a genuine need. H. J. EYSI-INCK
0.
APPENZELLER (Ed.):
Parhogrwsrs
and Trrarrwnt
of Hradachr.
Spectrum
Publications.
New York
(1976).
217 pp. f 12.75. Psychologists. espectally behaviour therapists. havIe recently become interested in the possibthty that disorders traditionally described as psychosomatic might be treated behaviourally. As an example of such a disorder headache has been a prime target. Thus one would have welcomed the appearance in print of texts which would enable interested behavioural scientists to gam a firm grasp of the basic knowledge of the disorder. Unfortunately this book does not fulfil this need. A dozen or more authors provide contributions of varying quality. Certainly this book would inform the reader about the large variety of headaches observed in clinical practice, and it does this with considerable success. However. on the whole the book was a disappomtment. The chapter by Diamond. “Psychogenic Headache: Treatment. including Biofeedback”. failed to make use of the dozen or so experimental studies on EMG biofeedback. The single chapter on “Migraine” by Friedman also offered no new synthesis of the data. To compensate for these disappointments. there is a reasonably good chapter by Zeigler on “The Epidemiology and Genetics of Migrame”. But I felt that It would have been improved by increasing its length. and greater discusston of papers produced by people such as Waters. Given the price and the large print used. this book seems a little too expensive to consider buying. It certainly will not act as a good reference source. and so I can only recommend that interested psychologists wait for a more suitable tome or spend more time assimilating the literature via Journal articles. STEPHEN MORL~\
E. ROY JOHN : F~mcr~or~al Yrwoscirwc, /oy_r. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoctates.
Vol. II.
h’ruron~rrric.x
New Jersey
Clinical
(1977). xiv +29l
Applicorions pp. f 14.15.
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E/~rrop/r_)~io-
This book is primarily concerned with the objective classification of patients on the basis of electrophysiologiprofile of various disorders cal investigation. The author describes a technique for building a “neurometric” and matching the patient in question to these profiles. Certainly his contention, that the pressure on skilled EEG record assessors would be relieved and many more patients could thus be processed, is convincmg. The only applications relevant to readers of this Journal are the use of a neurometric profile to detect and evaluate neuropathologtcal disorders in patients being considered for treatment, and a similar use of profiles for the assessment of amount and type of bram dysfunction in children with learning disabilities. E. HCNORICKSON
87
New Jersey
Tlw
nrurohidoqy
BOOK
REVIEWS
q/‘hchacior.
An iurroducrwl.
Lawrence
Erlbaum
Associates.
Hillsdale.
(1977). 334 pp. f 10.75.
Motivational concepts play a large part in the analysis of behavrour. includmg abnormal behavtour. and much of motivation has a biological origin. This book conveniently brings together information on motivational areas associated with thermoregulatory behaviour. feeding. drinking. and sexual behaviour. sleeping and waking. brain self-stimulation. and emotional behaviours. The informatton given is up-to-date. readably presented. and possibly of use to behaviour therapists in giving them information about recent advances in these fields that they may have missed. The book will also undoubtedly be of considerable use to students with an interest in the biological determinants of behaviour. A possible criticism of the book is that it does not deal with such factors as conditioning, ‘preparedness’. personality (insofar as differences in personality are determined by neurobiological factors) and the like. Nor is there any discussion of what Berlyne has called ‘collative’ factors in behavtour. some of which are also known to have neurobiological determinants. With the exceptions of these omissions. this is an excellent book which fulfills a genuine need. H. J. EYSI-INCK
0.
APPENZELLER (Ed.):
Parhogrwsrs
and Trrarrwnt
of Hradachr.
Spectrum
Publications.
New York
(1976).
217 pp. f 12.75. Psychologists. espectally behaviour therapists. havIe recently become interested in the possibthty that disorders traditionally described as psychosomatic might be treated behaviourally. As an example of such a disorder headache has been a prime target. Thus one would have welcomed the appearance in print of texts which would enable interested behavioural scientists to gam a firm grasp of the basic knowledge of the disorder. Unfortunately this book does not fulfil this need. A dozen or more authors provide contributions of varying quality. Certainly this book would inform the reader about the large variety of headaches observed in clinical practice, and it does this with considerable success. However. on the whole the book was a disappomtment. The chapter by Diamond. “Psychogenic Headache: Treatment. including Biofeedback”. failed to make use of the dozen or so experimental studies on EMG biofeedback. The single chapter on “Migraine” by Friedman also offered no new synthesis of the data. To compensate for these disappointments. there is a reasonably good chapter by Zeigler on “The Epidemiology and Genetics of Migrame”. But I felt that It would have been improved by increasing its length. and greater discusston of papers produced by people such as Waters. Given the price and the large print used. this book seems a little too expensive to consider buying. It certainly will not act as a good reference source. and so I can only recommend that interested psychologists wait for a more suitable tome or spend more time assimilating the literature via Journal articles. STEPHEN MORL~\
E. ROY JOHN : F~mcr~or~al Yrwoscirwc, /oy_r. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoctates.
Vol. II.
h’ruron~rrric.x
New Jersey
Clinical
(1977). xiv +29l
Applicorions pp. f 14.15.
o~Qucmrirarirr
E/~rrop/r_)~io-
This book is primarily concerned with the objective classification of patients on the basis of electrophysiologiprofile of various disorders cal investigation. The author describes a technique for building a “neurometric” and matching the patient in question to these profiles. Certainly his contention, that the pressure on skilled EEG record assessors would be relieved and many more patients could thus be processed, is convincmg. The only applications relevant to readers of this Journal are the use of a neurometric profile to detect and evaluate neuropathologtcal disorders in patients being considered for treatment, and a similar use of profiles for the assessment of amount and type of bram dysfunction in children with learning disabilities. E. HCNORICKSON
87