MOTOR AND BEHAVIORAL-RESPONSES OBTAINED BY STIMULATION WITH CHRONIC ELECTRODES OF OPTIC LOBE OF SEPIA-OFFICINALIS
MOTOR AND BEHAVIORAL-RESPONSES OBTAINED BY STIMULATION WITH CHRONIC ELECTRODES OF OPTIC LOBE OF SEPIA-OFFICINALIS
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(76)90598-9
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
CHANELET, J
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作者:
CHICHERY, R;CHANELET, J
A new technique using a stimulating chronically-implanted electrode permitted the study of motor responses induced by electrical stimulation of the optic lobe in a freely swimming Sepia. Electrical stimulation of the cortex of the optic lobe produces no motor response; this is in agreement with the results of preceding authors. The stimulation of the neuropil of the optic lobe by monopolar electrode produces many different motor responses, in support of Boycott''s results obtained by the same type of excitation in acute experiments. However, the field of stimulation of these electrodes could not always have been the same and it is possible that sometimes nervous structures close to the optic lobe were stimulated. Stimulation by a bipolar electrode which does not have this disadvantage, induces only 2 very different motor responses: an ipsilateral rotation and an alarm reaction, so called because of its similarities to the attentive immobilization of higher vertebrates. These 2 reactions are very complex and their different components are linked together as in a behavioral response from an intact animal. These reactions present very different characteristics of excitability. They are obtained from many areas in the neuropil of the optic lobe, within which there does not seem to be any preferential localization. These results emphasize the importance of the optic lobe in motor control.