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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830991403321

Titolo

Ciba Foundation symposium on the neurological basis of behaviour : in commemoration of Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M., G.B.E., F.R.S., 1857-1952 / / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G. E. W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Little, Brown and Company, , 1958

©1958

ISBN

0-470-71909-5

0-470-71656-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation Symposium

Disciplina

616.8

Soggetti

Psychophysiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; PREFACE; CONTENTS; CHAIRMAN'S OPENING REMARKS; EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS RELATING THE MIND WITH THE BRAIN; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; THE BEHAVIOUR OF NERVE CELLS; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; THE BEHAVIOUR OF CHRONICALLY DECEREBRATE CATS; Methods; Surgical procedures; Nursing care; Levels of decerebration; Pontile or bulbospinal cats; Low mesencephalic cats; High mesencephalic cats; Observations of behaviour;  Attitude, posture, righting and locomotion; Behaviour indicative of fear, anger and pain; Sexual behaviour; Responses to environmental cold and heat

REFERENCESDISCUSSION; AN APPRAISAL OF THE EFFECTS OF DIENCEPH- ALIC STIMULATION OF CONSCIOUS ANIMALS IN TERMS OF NORMAL BEHAVIOUR; Some characteristics of the drinking behaviour of goats; Studies in connexion with stimulations of the "drinking and feeding areas" of the hypothalamus; Stimulation and ablation of the taste pathway within the thalamus; The effect of amphetamine on normal and experimentally induced drinking and eating by goats; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; THE EFFECTS UPON BEHAVIOUR OF LESIONS IN THE DORSOMEDIAL AND ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI OF CAT AND



MONKEY

Dorsomedial nucleus system Anterior nucleus system; Dorsomedial nuclei; Anterior nuclei; Monkey; Dorsomedial nuclei; Anterior nuclei; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; CORRELATED EFFECTS IN BEHAVIOUR AND ELECTRICAL BRAIN ACTIVITY EVOKED BY STIMULATION OF THE RETICULAR SYSTEM, THALAMUS AND RHINENCEPHALON IN THE CONSCIOUS ANIMAL; Method; Changes in behaviour related to the midbrain reticular formation; The arousal reaction; Changes of behaviour related to the medial thalamus; The medial thalamic arousal reactions; Absence of motor reaction or slight tranquillization

Changes in behaviour related to the ventrolateral thalamus Changes in behaviour related to the dorsolateral thalamus; Changes in behaviour related to the rhinencephalon; Discussion and conclusions; Arousal reaction and excitation; Oral behaviour patterns (chewing, nose rubbing); Special motor reactions; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; SELECTIVE EFFECTS OF DRIVES AND DRUGS ON "REWARD" SYSTEMS OF THE BRAIN; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; THE RÔLE OF THE TEMPORAL CORTEX IN RECALL OF PAST EXPERIENCE AND INTERPRETATION OF THE PRESENT; Motor responses; Psychical responses; Experiential hallucinations

Interpretive illusions Interpretive cortex; Illusional interpretation; Function of interpretive cortex; Physiology of cortical stimulation; Conclusion; REFERENCES; ""THE TEMPORAL LOBE SYNDROME" PRODUCED BY BILATERAL ABLATIONS; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; SOME BASIC MECHANISMS OF THE TRANSLATION OF BODILY NEEDS INTO BEHAVIOUR; The non-specific component of some instinctual behaviours as disclosed by the ethological descriptions; Physiological mechanisms; Respiratory function and craving for air; Food seeking and feeding behaviour; Sexual behaviour

General Discussion The non-specific component of instinctual behaviour