Abstract: | Functional connections between different parts of the caudate nucleus and particular thalamic nucleic were investigated during the onset and development of the recruiting response in chronic experiments on cats. The method of condioning and testing stimulation of subcortical structures was used. The highest degree of functional connection was observed between the caudate nucleus and ventral anterior thalamic nucleus in the ipsilateral hemisphere. It is suggested that caudatethalamic functional connections in the development of synchronized activity are due to the activity of two mechanisms: general and facultative thalamic pacemakers.A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 570–574, November–December, 1977. |