The amount of compensatory sweating depends on the patient, the damage that the white rami communicans incurs, and the amount of cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery.
Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf

After severing the cervical sympathetic trunk, the cells of the cervical sympathetic ganglion undergo transneuronic degeneration
After severing the sympathetic trunk, the cells of its origin undergo complete disintegration within a year.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Friday, June 13, 2008

one of the components of anxiety as a dispositional characteristic was "drive"

Anxiety was a pivotal concept in psychodynamic theories. In my dissertation, supervised by Spence and conducted in his laboratory, I elected to investigate whether one of the components of anxiety as a dispositional characteristic was "drive" (the energetic component of the Hullian motivational complex). Quite simply, I investigated, whether chronically anxious individuals would classically condition more rapidly than less anxious individuals. As it turned out, they did (Taylor, 1951)

Models of Achievement: Reflections of Eminent Women in Psychology

By Agnes N. O'Connell, Nancy Felipe Russo
Published 1988
Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates