Kymograph Records of Neuromuscular (Respiratory) Patterns in Relation to Behavior Disorders*

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Abstract
This report gives briefly the results thus far obtained from experiments the purpose of which has been to demonstrate differences of behavior through objectively recordable measures. The data presented were the outcome of group investigations of modifications in internal patterns which, in turn, resulted from a series of phyloanalytic experiments on affect-frustration in social groups. Instrumental recordings were made of physiological alterations concomitant to differences in behavior. Respiratory curves recorded by the kymograph and by the basal metabolism apparatus showed a difference between two types of attentional adaptation. Specifically, a difference was found in physiological (respiratory) processes according I) as the organism functions as a total pattern of response, or 2) as there is the dominance of the secondary, symbolic reaction-pattern characteristic of neurotic and of so-called normal behavior.

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