RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
of day and night. The funds provided by the
Foundation will be used for salaries of research
assistants, the purchase of equipment, and compensation
for the subjects of study.
This study comes within the scope of the
Foundation's program in psychiatry. Catatonic
states, postencephalitic sleepiness, catalepsy,
insomnia, and narcolepsy are closely related to
the functions of the nervous system normally
involved in sleep.
Northwestern University Medical School
Research in Neuroanatomy
The Foundation's program in psychiatry includes
aid for research in neuroanatomy and
neurophysiology, since investigation in these
fields is basic to study of the diseased mind.
In support of research in neuroanatomy at the
Northwestern University Medical School, under
the direction of Dr. S. W.Ranson, an appropriation
of 28,000 was made for use over the twoyear
period beginning July I, 1935. A previous
one-year grant of $4,000 had been made for this
work in 1934,
Dr. Ranson's studies are concerned with cerebral
localization, that is, the correlation of the
anatomy of the brain with its physiology. Progress
in such studies depends in large measure on
refinements in technique. Dr. Ranson has elab-
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