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The Effect of Acetyl Choline on the Somatic Symptoms of Anxiety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Maxwell Shaw Jones*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh. (From the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.)
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The somatic symptoms found in anxiety states are referable mainly to imbalance of the autonomic nervous system; correction of this imbalance might theoretically be expected to improve the patient's condition. It is almost impossible accurately to assess the autonomic status of any patient, but subjective and objective clinical data together with pharmaco-dynamic reactions, reflex reactions and sugar-tolerance curves collectively represent a sufficiently comprehensive picture to justify some conclusions being drawn as to the state of the patient's autonomic nervous system.

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Part I.—Introduction
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1936 

References

(1) Harris, H., Journ. Ment. Sci., 1934, lxxx, p. 482.Google Scholar
(2) Misch, W., ibid., 1935, lxxxi, p. 389.Google Scholar
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