RESEARCH IN MENTAL DIFFERENCES
FIVE-YEAR PROGRAMME IN BRITAIN (Received December 21, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. An effort to discover the causes of mental differences and a study of their inheritance, at a cost of £lO,OOO and lasting five years, is being undertaken under the auspices of the British Medical Association by the Burden Mental Research Trust, financed by Mrs R. G. Burden, warden of the Stoke Park Colony at Bristol. The work will include an examination of 3400 school children, the compilation of the records of 1000 defectives consecutively admitted to Stoke Park and the formation of a collection of 130 defective and 90 normal brains, thereby fully examining the physical differences of individual brains.
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Southland Times, Issue 23390, 23 December 1937, Page 11
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