title: The effect of increased nitrogen pressure on motor activity and the intercentral relationships of the brain of monkeys.
abstract: The influence of increased nitrogen pressure up to 19 ata was investigated in chronic experiments on monkeys of a species of Javan macaques (Macaca irus) with electrodes implanted in cortical and subcortical regions of the brain. The phasic character of the changes of motor activity of the animals, an increase in the spectral density of the average power of the EEG in the range of frequencies from 4 to 20 Hz, and a disturbance in the connectedness of the electrogenesis of the reticular formation of the midbrain with the bioelectrical processes in the substantia nigra, the head of the caudate nucleus, and the frontal and motoric areas of the cortex were identified in the course of nitrogen compression at a rate of 1.0 ata per 1 min.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Hyperbaric Physiology, I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Vetosh
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Feigman
authors.forename: O I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Sharapov
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Shilina
mesh_terms: D000399:Air Pressure; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000187:drug effects; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000187:drug effects; D008251:Macaca; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000187:drug effects*; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D009584:Nitrogen