title: [The thermal activity of the rabbit brain during the interaction of "animal hypnosis" and of the hunger dominant].
abstract: The character of interaction between two dominant foci (motivation hunger dominant and "animal hypnosis") which had been formed in the rabbit brain was ambiguous: the foci could either function simultaneously or compete. In the first case, summation food reactions were observed when the hunger dominant was tested during a hypnotic episode against the background of deep and continuous hypnotic state. Brain thermal activity was asymmetric the temperature being higher in the parieto-occipital areas of the left hemisphere. If the hypnosis inhibited the hunger dominant, summation reactions were absent and the brain temperature was higher in the parieto-occipital areas of the right hemisphere. In cases when despite the repeated immobilization sessions the hunger dominant prevented from induction of hypnosis, the left-hemisphere thermal dominance persisted against the background of general brain cooling.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Malikova
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Petrova
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000818:Animals; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D006613:Higher Nervous Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D006815:Hunger / Q000502:physiology*; D007103:Immobilization / Q000502:physiology*; D009042:Motivation; D011817:Rabbits; D013817:Thermography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D013997:Time Factors