Supersensitivity Following Lesions of the Nervous System / / G.W. Stavraky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Stavraky, G.W.,
• MitwirkendeR: Penfield, Wilder,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Preface --; Contents --; CHAPTER I. Introduction --; CHAPTER II. Effects of Cerebral Ablations on Induced Convulsions --; CHAPTER III. Effects of Cerebral Ablations on Induced Convulsions --; CHAPTER IV. Reversals of the Effects of Nervous and Chemical Stimulation --; CHAPTER V. Some General Considerations --; REFERENCES --; AUTHOR INDEX --; SUBJECT INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487584740; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487584740
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: G.W. Stavraky.

This book presents a survey of research on neuronal behaviour after denervation. For a hundred years physiologists have been investigating the hyperirritability of damaged cells, but the phenomenon -- a function of organic excitability -- remains unexplained. Dr. Stavraky's complete and exhaustive account of this research, to which he has contributed much himself, summarizes all that is known at present. The implications of this knowledge are important for the clinician, neurologist, and electro-encephalographer, throwing light, as it does, on various pathological syndromes of the brain and central nervous system. Dr. Stavraky keeps a happy balance between the physiological and the pathological aspects of sypersensitivity, and his book should be welcomed by physiologist and pathologist alike. Among the general topics considered are: the responses to various convulsants and anticonvulsants of the central nervous system after lesions or ablations; the relation of deafferentation and supersensitivity in the spinal cord and cerebral hemispheres; reversals, autonomic control, and supersensitivity; and the restitution of functions following lesions and its relation to disinhibition, augmented influx and supersensitivity.