Abstract
Observations in this laboratory upon a monkey paralyzed from experimental poliomyelitis suggested that emotional states accompanied by hypothalamic activity may elicit cortically induced movements not otherwise operative. It was therefore decided to study the effect of direct stimulation of hypothalamic and adjacent forebrain nuclei upon skeletal muscular responses evoked by electrical stimulation of the cortical motor areas in the experimental animal, in the hope of further clarifying cortico-hypothalamic relations.1-4
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