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Psychosomatic Medicine 26:337-368 (1964)
© 1964 American Psychosomatic Society

Psychological Responses in the Human to Intracerebral Electrical Stimulation

GEORGE F. MAHL Ph.D.1, ALBERT ROTHENBERG M.D.1, JOSE M. R. DELGADO M.D.1, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN M.D.2

1 Departments of Psychiatry and of Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
2 Departments of Psychiatry and of Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Conn

During interviews, intracerebral electrical stimulation of sharply localized areas in the temporal lobe of a young woman with psychomotor epilepsy consistently produced ego-alien ideational experiences similar to those observed by Penfield. The responses were associated with considerable anxiety and with evoked electrical seizure activity. The use of the interview as the observational situation and careful study of the interview tape-recordings made it possible to discover that the content of the ideational experiences was often a function of her prestimulation "mental content." This finding led to an examination of Penfield's formulations and to some alternative hypotheses about mechanisms that might be involved in psychic responses to temporal-lobe stimulation.

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Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Calif., during period of study reported.

Submitted on January 24, 1964




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