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Progress in brain research. Volume 7, Slow electrical processes in the brain /

Slow Electrical Processes in the Brain.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aladjalova, N. A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1964.
Colección:Progress in brain research ; 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I. Recent data on the structure and function of neurons in the cerebral cortex; Nerve elements and glia; Potentials on the neuron surface; Excitatory and inhibitory synapses; Chemical transmitters; Neuron excitability and dendritic potentials; Chapter II. D.c. potentials of the cerebral cortex; Classification of potentials in the cerebral cortex by their duration; Recording of slow potentials; Difference in potentials between different points and at various depths of the cerebral cortex
  • Significance of extracellular currents in neuron functionEffect of external influences on the quasi-steady potential; Changes in the quasi-steady potential in relation to the activity in dendrites; Conclusions; Chapter III. Infraslow rhythmic potential oscillations in the cerebral cortex; Infraslow potential oscillations in the hemispheres of a waking animal; Factors that increase or decrease infraslow potential oscillations in the cerebral cortex; Infraslow potential oscillations in the human brain; Conclusions
  • Chapter IV. Excitability of neurons in the cerebral cortex and infraslow potential oscillationsInfraslow potential oscillations compared with the electrocorticogram; Changes in cortical reactivity associated with infraslow potential oscillations; Infraslow potential oscillations in an isolated strip of cortex; Conclusions; Chapter V. The role of certain subcortical structures in the appearance of infraslow potential oscillations in the brain; Infraslow potential changes in nuclei of subcortical and upper brain stem structures
  • Factors increasing infraslow potential oscillations in subcortical structuresSome examples of ISPO in the central gray matter and in the reticular formation in the brain stem; Acetylcholine and ISPO in the cerebral cortex and subcortical structures; Conclusions; Chapter VI. Slow rhythmic potential oscillations in the light of comparative physiological data; Slow rhythmic processes in certain elementary structures; Living structures classified according to their manifestation of slow rhythmic processes; Conclusions
  • Chapter VII. Infraslow processes in the brain as part of its integrative activityChange in the infraslow rhythm in formation of the conditioned defense reflex; Slow control system of the brain; Conclusions; Chapter VIII. Ionic processes in the cerebral cortex investigated by the method of conductivity; Method of investigating cortical impedance; Electrical parameters of the cerebral cortex in a waking animal; The state of excitation, inhibition and narcosis in relation to the electrical parameters of the cerebral cortex; Dynamics of ionic changes in the cerebral ganglion of the crab