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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stavraky, G.W., Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nervous system--Wounds and injuries.

Nervous system.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword / Penfield, Wilder

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

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8474-1

OCLC:

1129181476