A six-week cardiovascular exercise program was provided to 11 subjects classified as experiencing classical migraines, while 9 similarly-classified subjects served as waiting-list controls. Measures included the Canadian Aerobic Fitness test, a headache diary to record the Frequency, Intensity, and Duration of migraine episodes and the Pain-Severity, Affective-Distress, and Support scales of the West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI). Measures were taken on both treatment and control subjects before, mid-way through, and upon termination of the first aerobic program, as well as after a two week follow-up. The aerobic classes were effective in significantly improving cardiovascular fitness. Pain Severity decreased significantly for those receiving aerobic training, who also showed (nonsignificant) trends, over the measurement periods, toward reductions in Affective Distress as well as the Frequency, Intensity and Duration of migraines, but these trends failed to reach statistical significance. Control subjects demonstrated no systematic changes in any of the dependent measures. These results suggest possible long-term benefits of aerobic fitness in the management of classical migraines.

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Locke's division between primary and secondary qualities in chapter viii of Book II of the Essay is a hardy philosophical perennial which has weathered centuries of misrepresentation. Gradually, however, a new dawn in Locke scholarship is breaking, in the light of which it transpires that the importance and interest of the dichotomy belongs not to classical philosophy of perception but to philosophy of science. The excellence of current Locke exegesis, however, should not blind us to the fact that recent readings are in urgent need of supplementation: and one aim of this paper is to show how this might be achieved.

The adequacy of the selection criteria for adjectives used in mood adjective check lists has remained unquestioned. A review shows that past lists have been assembled according to arbitrary hypotheses about the underlying structure of affect, which may have biased sampling from the domain of possible descriptors of emotion. In addition, a substantial proportion of the words included in past lists are unrepresentative of emotion. 100 subjects judged how representative of emotion was each word contained in the 1965 Nowlis list. All ratings were reliable. Over-all, an average of one-third of the words included in past studies were judged as unrepresentative of emotion. The arbitrary nature of the initial adjective selection criteria, coupled with the finding that many of the words studied are not representative of emotion, suggests that a reevaluation of current taxonomies of mood and emotion is necessary.