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Psychosomatic Medicine 17:269-275 (1955)
© 1955 American Psychosomatic Society

Autonomic Function in the Neonate:

I. Implications for Psychosomatic Theory

JULIUS B. RICHMOND M.D.1 and SEYMOUR L. LUSTMAN Ph.D., M.D.2

1 Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, State University of New York, Syracuse, N. Y.
2 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.

Significant individual differences in autonomic function as measured by reflex vasodilatation and reflex pupillary dilatation to sound has been demonstrated in newborn infants. The implications of these findings for concepts in psychosomatic medicine is presented. This and other studies indicate that it is no longer tenable to hold the view that infants are physiologically vagotonic.

Submitted on April 26, 1954




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