My experience has been that everyone concerned-Medical Research Council staff, National
Health Service Colleagues, and University colleagues-are all sympathetic but money for …

Examines the problems of determining the unfolded shape of the entire human cerebral
cortex. Discusses the isometric and isogonal cortex and measurement methods. Maintains that …

As Dr Mann suggests, the bencficial effect of pindolol on the orthostatic fall in blood prcssure
in our patients could have bcen related to the 5-adrenoccptor-blocking properties of the …

We read with interest the 5-year review of outcome by Burgess et al.(February 1991 JRSM,
p 84). The authors remind us of the dismal results of treatment of this uncommon disease. …

Going Abroad SIR,-Your leading article (10 June, p. 604) and Dr. HAK Rowland (p. 639)
again drew attention to the increased prevalence of malaria in Britain, and rightly stress that …

Sir, The Kobner phenomenon is thought to arise as a result of an injury which allows cell
constituents to enter the circulation where the body fails to recognise ‘‘self ‘’and prepares …

Considers the two main problems believed to remain in biology: the flow chart of man and
all other living things, and the wiring diagram of the human brain. Outlines the tasks involved …

… Brennig James …

Proposes that problems can only be solved by trial and error, since the second law of
thermodynamics forbids any other means and that the embodiment of this process is a mechanism …

Discusses the topology of the action potential which is a wave of depolarisation which travels
along the axon of a nerve. Describes the action of the ion channels in medullated nerves, …