Spatio-temporal organization of cortical biopotentials in unrestrained rabbits at rest and in the course of conditioning [proceedings].
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The spatio-temporal organization of the cortical potentials in rabbits was investigated by means of comparison of successive electroencephalotopograms. This systemic organization was characterized by the potentials' sagittal gradient and its inversion within the 4-6/sec range due to higher amplitudes in the frontal cortical areas, - during natural transition from the active to passive behavior as well as after low-frequency stimulation of the thalamic midline nuclei and of the hypothalamic supraoptic area. Single stimuli applied to the structures under study ordinarily prevented any obvious active behavioral periods, although entailed no long-lasting changes in the rest-activity dynamics.
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A decrease in 25 out of 53 calculated coefficients of linear correlation of the potentials between pickups from the visual and motor areas of the cortex, far removed from one another, was observed during anode polarization (20-30 microA, 24 min) of the mammillary nuclei, the column of the fornix, and the mammillothalamic tract, using monopolar 24-channel pickup of the potentials of the cerebral cortex in six rabbits. Application of a 1-2% solution of acetylcholine to the visual area of the cortex leads to an increase in spatial synchronization (13 out of 53 coefficients of correlation) for 5 minutes and between the 10th and 15th minutes from the start of the application. With the combined effect of the polarization of these formations and of the acetylcholine applied to the cortex, reciprocal compensation of the changes in spatial synchronization which wer elicited by each of the influences separately was observed. The hypothesis is advanced of the existence of a nonspecific cholinergic synchronizing system which is active when the mammillothalamocortical connections are preserved.
At pharmaco-electroencephalographic examination of patients with neuroses narrow-band components was carried out of the EEG spectrum, which oppositively changed under the influence of sidnocarb and obsidan--agonist and antagonist of noradrenergic system, the initial hypothesis on the perspectivity of search of the EEG markers of the level of activation of the brain neurotransmitter systems thus being confirmed. Comparison of the obtained EEG-data with pharmacological properties of the applied drugs allows to project the aspects of further EEG studies of neurotransmission.
To find EEG-markers of catecholaminergic activation shifts EEG power spectra of white rats were computed before and after intraperitoneal injections of propranolol, metaproterenol, haloperidol, amantadine, or isotonic sodium chloride solution. Differential spectral characteristics were undergone to factor analysis and discriminant analysis. Factors with similar structure for both catecholaminergic systems were revealed in EEG-reactions to mutually antagonistic injections and relatively specific factors as well. The leading factor of adrenotropic injections described the augmentation of the spectral power in the range of 9-16 Hz induced by propranolol and its reduction by metaproternol. Similar factor was also revealed in reactions to dopaminotropic injections with the smaller value of discriminant function coefficient. One more common feature of EEG-reactions to catecholaminergic disturbances was found to consist of the reciprocal narrow-band shifts in the theta- and delta-diapasons. The leading factor for the recognition of dopaminotropic disturbances described the increase of EEG power in the band of 19-30 Hz at activation and its reduction at suppression of the transmitter system.
To study the role of cholinergic transmitter system in the maintenance of sychronizing limbic influences, the dynamics of the spatial distribution of the changes of cross-correlation coefficients of rabbits EEG led by 24 electrodes, was estimated at application of acetylcholine solution to the visual cortical area in combination with anode polarization of mammillary bodies. Acetylcholine, which separate effect was connected with a restricted increase of the spatial synchronization of potentials, completely eliminated the effects of isolated polarization expressed in a significant decrease of a half of calculated correlation coefficients between EEGs of the visual and motor cortical areas. Nonspecific cholinergic synchronizing system is supposed to exist which is active under the conditions of the mammillo-thalamo-cortical connections being intact.
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Acetylcholine solution application to the visual cortex of walking unrestrained rabbit led approximately in 5 minutes to a certain increase of the spatial synchronization of the cortical potentials at the small conditions, the the cortex, 24 EEG channels being used. Under the same conditions, the application of muscarinic antagonist amizil had an opposite more distinct effect. Endogenous cholinergic input increasing the spatial synchronization is supposed to play an important role in the formation of the spatiotemporal cortical potentials' organization necessary for the occurrence of complex behavioural acts.
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