RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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sensation, with a view to working out better
methods for the surgical relief of pain, a field of
study which offers considerable promise.
Other investigations are being carried out in
the laboratory by Dr. S. Bernard Wortis and his
associates. These are concerned with the respiratory
metabolism of brain and neurological tissue,
with virus diseases of the central nervous system,
and with migraine.
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Dartmouth College Medical School
Research In Physiological Optics
Studies in physiological optics conducted at
the Dartmouth College Medical School, by Professor
Adelbert Ames and his associates during
the past five years have shown the existence
of a common visual defect not previously recognized,
namely, aniseikonia, a difference in the
size of the two retinal images. It has been found
that a considerable percentage of patients with
refractive errors present evidence of this condition,
and it is probable that a large number of
persons in the United States would profit from
the application of the new knowledge. The application
of this discovery may
well refine the
diagnoses of neurologists and psychiatrists, since
the nervous disturbance due to aniseikonia may
be so great as to be mistaken for the symptoms
of brain tumor or psychic neurosis.
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