Clinical pharmacists as allied health care providers to psychiatric patients.

The effect of clinical pharmacy services on the quality and economy of health care provided to psychiatric patients at a Veterans Administration outpatient clinic was evaluated. Twenty-one patients were selected from the Day Treatment Center, of these, 19 patients completed the study. In providing health care to these psychiatric patients, the clinical pharmacist used a systemized approach including data gathering, evaluation, plan of action, and follow-up.

Deficient influence of peripheral stimuli on precentral neurones in monkeys with dorsal column lesions.

1. Four male monkeys (M. fascicularis) were trained in a movement performance task which involved pulling a horizontal lever into a target zone and then collecting, from one of a variety of positions, a small food reward.

Supplementary motor area of the monkey: activity of neurones during performance of a learned motor task.

1. Recordings were made of the natural dischages of neurones in the supplementary motor area (SMA) of conscious monkeys trained to perform a stereotyped motor task with either hand. 2.

Splitbrain monkeys: cerebral control of ipsilateral and contralateral arm, hand, and finger movements.

The connections of the descending pathways in the monkey suggest that each hemisphere controls independent arm, hand, and finger movements contralaterally, but mainly arm movements ipsilaterally. This difference could be observed in splitbrain monkeys executing a visuomotor task with one eye covered, provided tactile guidance of the movements was largely prevented.