The Informational Underload (Sensory Deprivation) Model in Contemporary Psychiatry
Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal April 1, 1967 Peter Brawley, Robert Pos 5 citations
To summarize briefly: Converging data from many disciplines — psychology, psychiatry, social theory, biochemistry, neuropharmacology, neurophysiology — point to the sensory input regulating mechanism of the central nervous system as a critical factor in the production of hallucinoses and psychotic experience. There is good evidence that what we have called the informational underload model...