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Changes in the Topographical Distribution of Glycogen in the Brain during Animal Hypnosis

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ANIMAL hypnosis is a general biological reaction of an inhibitory type, which is analogous to several syndromes of human psychopathological behaviour1. Its phenomenology is widely known, but its mechanism and metabolic basis remain unsolved2.

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SVORAD, D. Changes in the Topographical Distribution of Glycogen in the Brain during Animal Hypnosis. Nature 181, 775–776 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181775a0

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