EFFERENCE COPY AND COROLLARY DISCHARGE - IMPLICATIONS FOR THINKING AND ITS DISORDERS
EFFERENCE COPY AND COROLLARY DISCHARGE - IMPLICATIONS FOR THINKING AND ITS DISORDERS
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DOI:
10.1093/schbul/4.4.636
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
6.6
通讯作者:
FEINBERG, I
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作者:
FEINBERG, I
Rapidly accumulating evidence indicates that motor commands in the nervous system are associated with neuronal discharges that alter activity in both sensory and motor pathways. These alterations permit monitoring of the commands themselves so that subsequent motor activity can be modified even before the effector event (muscle contraction) has occurred. They may act to inform sensory systems that the stimulation produced by movement is self-generated rather than environmentally produced. In this way these discharges are, at least in an abstract sense, crucial for the distinction of self and nonself. Evidence for the existence of these corollary discharges has been found for both relatively simple, rigid systems (eg, eye movements in fish, insects) and for complex, plastic motor behavior in man. However, schizophrenic patients often report sensory experiences consistent with ideas of being poisoned or persecuted, for example. Such apparent afferent disturbances might simply reflect a normal perception of an abnormal motor state. Alternatively, they may directly result from disordered internal feedback to the highest sensory centers, in the most complex way, the entire organism, or self. Finally, it may be less than coincidental that all drugs that ameliorate schizophrenic symptoms are capable of producing motor disorders. These extrapyramidal syndromes presumably result from alterations of internal feedback in striatal pathways. Perhaps antischizophrenia drugs alter the feedback systems of thought as well, opening disordered feedback loops and in this way alleviating psychotic symptoms. The notion that disordered feedback circuits cause psychosis is hardly original, being at least as old as the first application of the concept of feedback to CNS function. Perhaps a partial justification for these new speculations is that they direct the attention of psychiatrists to recent discoveries of mechanisms of motor control which, on their own level, have profound implications for mechanisms of CNS integration. They also suggest a new, albeit hypothetical locus for the failure of neural integration thought to be present in schizophrenia: the corollary discharges associated with the motor acts of thought.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)