STUDIES IN DECEREBRATION
- 1 January 1927
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 17 (1) , 18-27
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1927.02200310021003
Abstract
In two previously published communications1it was pointed out that simultaneous ligation of the basilar and carotid arteries produced a decerebrate preparation which was free from the objections of mutilation and shock. In an article just published we2have described the results of destruction of the labyrinths in animals decerebrated by the anemic method. From this study it appeared that the labyrinths exert a strong influence on the extensor reflex of the neck, which tends to produce a fixed position of the head in extension, with a consequent marked extensor rigidity in the forelegs. Not only does this position evoke an extensor rigidity in the forelegs, but the play of labyrinthine tone on the extensors of the neck is sufficient alone to reinforce the extensors of the forelegs when the head is passively flexed in an ordinary decerebrate animal. When the labyrinths are destroyed and the head isKeywords
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