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Progress in brain research. Volume 1, Brain mechanisms
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Brain Mechanisms
Details
- Creator
- edited by Giuseppe Moruzzi, Alfred Fessard, Herbert H. Jasper
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amsterdam : Elsevier, 1963
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (515 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1281513466, 9786611513467, 0080861253, 0444404023
- OCLC
- ocn808684071
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Copyright; Participants in the Pisa Colloquium; Introductory Remarks on Behalf of IBRO and UNESCO; Introductory Remarks by the Honorary President; Dedication to Professor Bremer; Contents; Chapter 1. Postsynaptic and presynaptic inhibitory actions in the spinal cord; Chapter 2. Recurrent inhibition as a mechanism of control; Chapter 3. Studies of the integrative function of the motor neurone; Chapter 4. The plasticity of human withdrawal reflexes to noxious skin stimuli in lower limbs; Chapter 5. Reticular homeostasis and critical reactivity
- Chapter 6. Thalamic integrations and their consequences at the telencephalic levelChapter 7. Influence of unspecific impulses on the responses of sensory cortex; Chapter 8. The tonic discharge of the retina and its central effects; Chapter 9. Multisensory convergence on cortical neurons: Neuronal effects of visual, acoustic and vestibular stimuli in the superior convolutions of the cat's cortex; Chapter 10. The direct cortical response (DCR). Associated events in pyramid and muscle during development of movement and after-discharge
- Chapter 11. Brief survey of direct current potentials of the cortexChapter 12. Studies of non-specific effects upon electrical responses in sensory systems; Chapter 13. Aspects of sensorimotor reverberation to acoustic and visual stimuli. The role of primary specific cortical areas; Chapter 14. New data on the specific character of ascending activations; Chapter 15. The characteristics and origin of voluntary movements in higher vertebrates; Chapter 16. Responses in non-specific systems as studied by averaging techniques
- Chapter 17. A transcranial chronographic and topographic study of cerebral potentials evoked by photic stimulation in manChapter 18. Specific and non-specific responses and autonomic mechanisms in human subjects during conditioning; Chapter 19. Sleep mechanisms.; Chapter 20. General discussion on inhibition; Final discussion; Author index; Subject index