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                  <text>August 29, 1972

Morris B. Bender, M.D.
Professor of Neurology

Mt. Sinai Hospital
New York City

N

Dear Morris,

I very much enjoyed your report on a theory of acupuncture.
I tried to relate what little the popular press describes
about acupuncture to the DSS data, the more I am impressed that DSS
represents a reasonable way to study the process.
The more

of the formation of an NIH committee
enclosed unpublished study. The 1956-1959
quantitative measurements provided a better means of studying D85,
and in 1963-64, when I began to play with a CAT, we designed the
enclosed study to demonstrate the cerebral components of sensory
interaction. We found evidence of interaction in the AEP but could
not relate these changes to reports of extinction of stimuli.
sent

me

to

The announcement

my

The

files for the

exercise does demonstrate a

problem in acupuncture, and

may

be of

way

to study the DSS
you or your committee.

interest to

Good luck in the studies. Perhaps, DSS will yet become
established as the explanation for the"hypnosis' phenomenon which
is now becoming the talk of the psychiatric community.

Sincerely yours,
Max

Fink, M.D.

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