[Role of hyperactive determinant structures in the creation of functional complexes of seizure activity in the cerebral cortex]

Abstract

Experiments were conducted on cats; foci of increased excitability working in the individual activity regimens were created by the subconvulsive strychminization. A focus of more powerful excitation induced also by means of strychine played the role of a determinant dispatch station (DDS). Its importance consists in determining the character of the other excitation foci activity in enhancing the excitation in them, in uniting them into a functional complex, and in determining the character of the whole complex activity. This complex can be destroyed by nembutal suppression of DDS. Exclusion of any other destination stations included into the complex failed to effect this complex.