title: [Development of the comprehension of localization in deranged consciousness].
abstract: The controversy between narrow localisationism and equipotentialism which exists even nowadays shows that these two trends are not in a position to solve the localisation problem. The attempts to localize consciousness either in the cortex or in the subcortex and the area of the third ventricle should be considered groundless, as well as the assumption that the cortex only gives the contents of consciousness while the source of consciousness is found in the area of the third ventricle. Consciousness represents the synthesis of the psychical activity. The basic weak points of both trends arise from the very formulation of the question discussed, from the striving to find the solution of the localisation problem without bearing in mind the physiological processes which lie in the basis of the higher psychical functions, i.e. behind the processes of the higher nervous activity, as well as from the incorrect understanding of the conceptions of "function" and "centre". Thanks to the school of I. P Pavlov and his followers the prerequistions have been created of a new trend in the field of the localisation problem--the teaching of the dynamic localisation of the cerebral function.
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D003243:Consciousness; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006613:Higher Nervous Activity; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Die Entwicklung der Auffassungen über die Lokalisation des gestörten Bewusstseins.