"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Chemical sympathectomy disrupts the only known neural input to the pineal gland
The Pineal Gland: A Pacemaker within the Circadian System of the House Sparrow
Natille Headrick Zimmerman and Michael Menaker
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Feb., 1979), pp. 999-1003 (article consists of 5 pages)
Chemical sympathectomy disrupts the only known neural input to the pineal gland.