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Opening and Closing of Eyes and Signs of Psychomotor Excitation resulting from Stimulation of the Putamen in Cats

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EVIDENCE from electrophysiological and behavioural experiments and from pathological conditions in man suggests that the functions of the putamen and caudate nucleus are inhibitory in nature. Electrical stimulation of the caudate, however, also gives rise both to electro-physiological excitation1–3 and, from the point of view of behaviour, to facilitatory effects involving contraversive turning of the whole body4–6. We have shown that the inhibitory phenomena previously associated with the putamen7 are similarly concerned with excitatory effects.

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DIECKMANN, G., HASSLER, R. Opening and Closing of Eyes and Signs of Psychomotor Excitation resulting from Stimulation of the Putamen in Cats. Nature 216, 580–581 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216580a0

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