Jw Mason’s scientific contributions

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Organization of endocrine mechanisms
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Jw Mason

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... Whereas Cannon had studied animals prepared for immediate 'fight o r flight', Selye studied animals under conditions of chronic frustration, for example a rat with its legs tied together for 24 hours. A still milder paradigm was introduced by Mason and colleagues in which an animal could avoid an electrical shock by watching for a signal and then pressing a lever (Mason, 1968). An aroused state can also be engendered in animals by disrupting asocially stable community, for example among mice by introducing a strange male into an established colony (Henry et al., 1967). ...

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1988.Allostasis a new paradigm to explain arousal pathology
Organization of endocrine mechanisms
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