The most important yet the most difficult scientific task confront- ing man is how his brain produces his behavior and his subjective experience. The complexity of this problem is ineffably vast, ex- ceeding by many orders of magnitude the theoretical and technical achievements concerning atomic energy or the exploration of space. Unlike these areas of endeavor, neuroscience is fortunate in knowing no national rivalries, and its only secrecies are those of language. The latter, however, are often highly effective in con- cealing from workers in Los Angeles the discoveries of their co- leagues in Moscow. A cogent example is provided in this volume by Roy John (p. 179) whose experiments proceeded for several years before he discovered the important body of data accumulated earlier by Prof. Livanov and his colleagues utilizing the same ingenious technique of the "tracer stimulus." Reduction of such occurrences is certainly one of the goals of the present book, which now becomes a double translation, a dozen of the papers having originally been translated into Russian.
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The Organization of Cerebral Tissue in Transaction and Storage of Information.- Mechanisms of Control of Pyramidal Cell Activity.- Correlation between Cortical Potentials in Patients with Obsessive Neuroses.- Changes in Electrical Phenomena in the Human Subcortex in Relation to Operative Memory.- Ephaptic Transmission of Excitation as a Factor in the Synchronization of Neuronal Activity.- The Biologist and the Mathematician: A Necessary Symbiosis.- Inhibition of the "Escape Reaction" in Rabbit: An Analysis of the Mechanism of Hypnotic Akinesia.- On Butterflies in the Brain.- Electroencephalographic Investigation of Cortical Relationships in Dogs During Formation of a Conditioned Reflex Stereotype.- Correlation Analysis of Spike Activity of Adjacent Cortical Neurons in Rabbits.- Spatial Synchronization of Cortical Potentials in Patients with Disturbances of Association.- Temporal Organization of the Auditory System.- Electrical Correlates of the Direction of Movement Elicited by Subcortical Stimulation.- Conditioning of Single Unit Activity by Intracerebral Stimulation.- Current Problems in Electrophysiological Studies of Memory.- Electrophysiological Analysis of Responses of the Central Nervous System to Electromagnetic Fields.- Spatial Synchronization of Cortical and Subcortical Potentials in Rabbits during Formation of Conditioned Reflexes.- Properties of Spike Activity of Neurons in Different Layers of the Cortex.- Cyclic Changes in Cortical Neuronal Activity after Brief Stimuli.- Relationship between Distant Synchronization and Steady Potential Shifts in the Cerebral Cortex.- Electrophysiological Investigation of Specific and Nonspecific Interoceptive Synaptic Influences on Spinal Neurons.- Direct and Indirect Cortical Influences on the Thalamic Nuclei.- Electrographic Correlates of Intersignal Responses during Defensive Conditioning in Dogs.- Effect of Visual Afferent Impulses on Formation of Cortical Rhythms.- Functional Properties of Dendrites in the Mammalian Brain.- Analysis of Information Concerning the Electrical Activity of the Brain.- Electrical Excitability of Apical Dendrites.- Correlation Analysis of Central EEG Rhythms of the Healthy Human Cortex.- Electrical Responses of the Hippocampus to Stimulation of the Vagus Nerve.- Investigation of Activity of Cortical Neurons in Early Stages of Conditioning.- Comparative Aspects of Neural Background Activity.- Neuronal Mechanisms of Habituation.- Analysis of Spatial Synchronization of Cortical Potentials in the Rabbit.- Emergence of Synchronization in Electroactive Conducting Media.
