>Does anyone know of any good sources of information on the RAS
>part of the brain? I want to do some reading on this. Thanks, --Tim
>>>Dear Tim,
I suggest you starting with the first finding of the implication of brain
stem in the arousal mechanism. In that pioneering work the term RAS was
assigned by the most famous italian neurophysiologist G. Moruzzi (Pisa
Univerity, Italy). The reference is:
MORUZZI G. and MAGOUN H.W. (1949) Electroencephalog. & Clin. Neurophysiol.
1: 455
Try also:
MORUZZI G. (1954) In: Brain Mechanisms and Consciousness (E.D. Adrian, H.H.
Jasper et al., eds.), Springfield: Thomas, p. 21.
Best wishes
Carlo
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