Tuesday, April 24, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Endocrine Glands Bridge Emotional,Physical Gap
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Scientific fans of the endocrine glands are cheered by a clear-cut demonstration of a chemical bridge between human emotion and prime chemical regulators of the physical human body.
The whole future of psychosomatic science depends upon finding and understanding such bridges, and the endocrinologists have long maintained these glands are the golden gates.
BUT ONLY WHEN secreted in correct amounts which are extremely tiny. When larger amounts are put into the body chemistry on any regular basis, there are a host of physical disturbances.
The demonstration was of a direct reaction of emotion on the pituitary gland and an indirect reaction upon the adrenal glands. These glands all secrete substances into the body which keep it up to snuff.
The demonstration was made in medical students experiencing the emotion that goes with an examination. This is accepted scientifically as a standard emotion made up of anxiety to do well and of fear of doing poorly.
Blood was taken from them when they were finished. These samples contained the pituitary substance ACTH in amounts 30 to 100 times those which normally circulate in the blood. These measurements were made possible by relatively new chemical techniques.
Even this refined method was incapable of measuring the ACTH in
Speech Potpourri Winners Picked
The winners in the second finals of the Speech Potpourri are Mervyn Schwedt, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman, and L. Maurice Childers. Muncie sophomore.
Schweed spoke on "Life Beyond the Earth," Stewart spoke on "A Monument to Communism," and Childers spoke on "A Look into Motivation Research."
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech and drama and chairman of the department of speech, presented the men cups for high achievement. There were no numbered prizes.
the blood of the same number of medical students who had not been subjected to the examination emotion. That tiny is the normal amount of circulating ACTH. The measured adrenal substance was hydrocortisone. It was roughly twice as high in the emotion-hit students as in their "controls."
The scientists believed theirs was the first clear-cut demonstration of the stimulating effect of emotion on the human pituitary-adrenal "axis." It is well known scientifically that physical stress will have the effect—a surgical operation, for instance.
This is a disease caused by extreme over-activity of the adrenal glands and its symptoms are muscular wasting, obesity, salt and water retention, diabetes, high blood pressure and skin eruptions. Unless the over-activity is stopped, the outcome is death.
THE INVESTIGATING scientists, J. R. Hodges, M. T. Jones and M.A. Stockham of the University of London remarked that the blood levels of ACTH attained temporarily by the students approximated those which routinely circulate in the blood of victims of Cushing's Disease.
ACTH is the pituitary substance which stimulates the adrenal glands into releasing their own substances such as hydrocortisone. In Cushing's Disease the adrenal glands are over-active either because they themselves are diseased or because the pituitary is releasing too much ACTH.
Their results indicate that "emotional stress is a much more powerful stimulus than physical stress," they said in a report to the technical journal, "Nature."
KU Press Grows To Big Business
By Karl Koch
Sixty years ago a small printing plant was set up in the northeast corner of Fraser Hall. It was to print the student newspaper and part of the Alumni magazine. The plant had one printing press, one linotype machine, and a few accessories.
The Alumni magazine and the student newspaper are still the major items on the production schedule, but now the plant does the printing for all of the University and university organizations.
Today the plant occupies several thousand square feet of Flint Hall, and the latest in modern printing equipment fills the several rooms of the University of Kansas Press.
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS is owned by the University, but is self-supporting. Each department is charged for the work done, and payment is made through the business office of the University.
Although usually thought of as a printing plant, the University Press provides a variety of services to KU. It maintains and operates the campus addressing center, and operates a postage metering service.
A stenographic bureau consisting of several machines produces personalized letters for campus departments, and the Press furnishes printing instructions for two lab sections of occupational therapy students and for two sections of journalism students.
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