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Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club

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Articles and Papers by Bates

Military Personnel Research Committee of the MRC (Sub-Committee on Armoured Fighting Vehicles)

'Some Characteristics of a Human Operator, by J A V Bates, reprint from the Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Vol. 94, Part IIA, No. 2

'The Human Operator of Control Mechanisms' by W E Hick and J A V Bates, Permanent Records of Research and Development, Ministry of Supply, Monograph No. 17.204

Information Theory Symposium papers

Paper for discussion on problems in physiological knowledge of the brain and its impact on cybernetic advances

'Report of Proceedings, Symposium on Information Theory, London, England, September 1950' Transactions of the Institute of Radio Engineers (Published by Ministry of Supply)

'A technique for identifying changes in consciousness' by J A V Bates, reprinted from EEG Clinical Neurophysiology Vol.5 pp.445-446

'A simple electronic circuit for measuring a voltage-time integral.' Proceedings of the Physiological Society, 18-19 Dec 1953; Journal of Physiology, vol. 123, pp 28-20, 1953

'A simple Technique for Making the E.E.G. Audible' by J A V Bates and J D Cooper, from the Neurological Research Unit of the MRC, The National Hospital, Queen Square, London)

'Can voluntary movement be localised in the cerebral cortex? An examination of the classical concept which relates voluntary movement to the cortico-spinal pathway in the light of some recent observations.' by J A V Bates (British Association, Physiology Section, Oxford)

'Observations on the excitable cortex in man' J A V Bates, London School of Hygiene

'The changing Values in Electroencephalography', by J A V Bates, reprinted from 'Discussion on the Changing Values in Electroencephalography' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 50, No. 10 pp.908-910

NSS Oxford Study Group 1958 'The results of cerebral surgery for motor disorders'

'Special investigation techniques - indwelling electrodes and electrocorticography' by J A V Bates (Chapter 13 from an unidentified book)

'Part I: Hemispherectomy:- Theraputic Results in 44 Cases.
Part II: Discussion of Some Observations on the Excitable Motor Cortex'

'Application of Collodion Electrodes to the Scalp' J A V Bates and J D Cooper

'The motor functions of the spinal cord'

'Electrical activity of the cortex accompanying voluntary movement' J A V Bates, Neurological Research Unit, National Hospital, Queen Square, London)

Extracts of a paper concerning the motor systemn and stimulation of the cerebral cortex

Child Neurology and Cerebral Palsy. 'The nervous organizations for movement in the spinal chord'. The Second National Spastics Society Study Group, Oxford.

'Posterior Biparietal Ablations in the Monkey. Changes to neurological and behavioral testing.' J A V Bates and G Ettlinger. Reprinted from the American Medical Association Archives of Neurology

'New light on the plantar reflex'. Reprinted from Cerebral Palsy Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 1, 1960, pp.38-39

'Inhibition of muscular activity in the lightly anaesthetized cat induced by cortical stimulation and recorded by electromyograms' J A V Bates and A P Capon. From Proceedings of the Physiological Society 17-18 Feb 1961; Journal of the Physiology, vol. 155 pp21-22.

'Depth Electrodes in the Human Subject. Basic Technical, Interpretive and Ethical Considerations' by J A V Bates

Lectures to Neurology Course, Dr J A V Bates

'The Surgery of Epilepsy' J A V Bates (contribution to Modern Trends in Neurology, Ed D Williams, Apr 1962)

'The Significance of Complex Motor Patterns in the Response to Cortical Stimulation', J A V Bates, National Hospital, London, International Journal of Neurology Vol 4 - Number 1

Paper on clinical data storage and analysis

Notes on analysis of results of microelectrode recordings on 70 Parkinsonian patients during stereotactic surgery.

Consultant Conference. 'The Electrophysiology of Epilepsy' J A V Bates (Royal College of Physicians)

'The Electrophysiology of the Human Thalamus' by J A V Bates, reprinted from the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London Vol. 1 No. 2 (Pitman Medical Publishing Co Ltd)

Symposium on Clinical Data Storage and Analysis, Medical Research Council

'The significance of tremor phasic units in the human thalamus' J A V Bates (Third Symposium on Parkinson's Disease)

'Difficulties of Marriage Between a Clinician and a Computer' by J A V Bates

'Preparation of Clinical Data for Computers' by J A V Bates, reprinted from British Medical Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Computing in Medicine) pp.199-205

'The Computer Processing of Data in Free Text - with special refererence to Medical Records' by J A V Bates, K C Ford, Draft II

'The Electroencephalogram as a Guide to Cerebral Function' Off-print from Aspects of Psychiatric Research

'The Unidirectional Potential Changes in Petit Mal Epilepsy, by J A V Bates, from Brain Function, pp.237-279

'Discussion' paper by J A V Bates

'Are mechanical models of brain function a help or a hindrance' J A V Bates. Harveian Society, 18 March 1971.

'Some practical aspects of electrical stimulation of the human diencephalon' J A V Bates. Reprinted from International Congress Series No.253. Neurophysiology Studied in Man. Proceedings of a Symposium held in Paris at the Faculty of Sciences 20-22 July 1971.

Various notes and extracts relating to the motor system and its stimulation

'The Communicative Hand'  by J A V Bates

'Electrical Recording from the Thalamus in Human Subjects' by J A V Bates, reprinted from Handbook of Sensory Physiology, Volume II, Somatosensory System (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York)

'Trans-cutaneous Stimulation for the Relief of Intractable Pain' by J A V Bates and P Nathan

Mosckvam: - Clinico-Pathological Symposium

Lecture by J A V Bates on the effects of electrical stimulation on pain

'Relief of chronic pain by transcutaneous stimulation - analysis of 100 consecutive patients'. Paper given by Bates at the First World Congress on Pain, Florence, Sep 1975.

'Emergence of Motor Function' by J A V Bates, The National Hospital, Queen Square, London. 10th International Study Group on Child Neurology and Cerebral Palsy, Oxford, 31 Aug-4 Sep 1976

'Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation.  The Transistorized Placebo?' by J A V Bates

'Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Pain' by J A V Bates and P W Nathan

'How the brain does not work' by J A V Bates. Geoffrey Parr Memorial Lecture, EEG Society

'Our knowledge of the brain, or reflections on our ignorance of the brain, or the limits to our knowledge of the brain and its working' J A V Bates, Neurological Research Unit (MRC), National Hospital, Queen Square, London.

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'Our knowledge of the brain, or reflections on our ignorance of the brain, or the limits to our knowledge of the brain and its working' J A V Bates, Neurological Research Unit (MRC), National Hospital, Queen Square, London.

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