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In two and one half pages Papez and Bateman report that in thirty-one psychotics in which the thalamus was examined histologically postmortem they found cytologic changes in the thalamic nuclei. The specimens showed disease of the cortical cells associated with all manner of nuclear disease in the thalamus. These findings are of extreme interest even though the report does not give detailed information concerning the clinical pictures dealt with. The authors seem to think that it suffices to give generalizations of the clinical