The Nervous System and Electric Currents: Proceedings of the Third Annual National Conference of the Neuro-Electric Society, Held in Las Vegas, Nevada

ISBN-13: 9781468418385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 184 str.

Norman L. Wulfsohn; Norman L. Wulfsohn

Opis

The brain is one of the most fascinating organs of the body, which delicately controls the thoughts and activities of Man from moment to moment. While much information has been accumulated over the years as to its anatomical and physiological functions, little research has been devoted to determine the effects of electrical fields upon this organ. Therefore, a group of interested researchers formed the Neuro-Electric Society to provide a forum for studying the effects of electrical currents upon the related nuerophysio logical determinates. luch of this research has been directed to wards the production of sleep or a state of anesthesia by trans cranially applied electrical currents. The Neuro-Electric Society is a national society which holds annual conferences, bringing together a wide variety of scientists with skills in various fields such as anesthesiology, biomathematics, biomedical engineering, neuro-anatomy, neurology, neurophysiology, neurosurgery, pharmacology, psychiatry and psychology. Subsequent to a number of meetings of various interested groups, the first annual meeting of the Neuro-Electric Society was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in October 1967, and the second in San Francisco, California in February 1969. The third conference is to be held at Las Vegas, Nevada, March 23-25, 1970."

Spis treści

Section 1 Neurophysiological Measurement of Electrical Parameters.- A General Theory of Electromagnetic Measurements in Living Organisms and the Experimental System for Its Verification.- Magnetic Fields Associated with Nervous Conduction.- Current Density Measurement — An Attempt for Improvement.- A Method of Evaluating Electrode Placements Used in Impedance Cephalography.- An Investigation of Excitability Thresholds Using Two Closely-Spaced High Frequency Sinusoids.- Spatio-Temporal Potential Fields of Evoked Responses Recorded Transcranially — Prelude to Stimulation.- Impedance Measurements of Tissue.- Electrical Activation of Skeletal Muscle by Sequential Stimulation.- A Theoretical Analysis of Several Electrode Placements on the Scalp for Recording Averaged Evoked Potentials.- Section 2 Neurophysiological Effects of Electrical Currents.- Effect of Microwave Radiation on the Frog Sciatic Nerve.- Effect of Cortically Applied DC Currents on Strychnine Spike Activity — A Preliminary Report.- Parkinson-like Tremor Production by Transcranial Electrical Stimulation.- Electrostimulation of Hearing.- Gradable Pain Production.- The Use of Applied DC Fields in the Analysis of Interictal Epileptiform Discharges.- A Pilot Study of the Effects of Functional Electrical Stimulation on the Recovery of Function Following Stroke in Man.- Intravascular Electrical Thrombogenesis — A Preliminary Report.- A Clinical Assessment of the Conditional Effects of Electroshock.- Effect of Ethanol on Somatosensory Evoked Potentials.- A Comparative Study of Evoked Unit and Population Retinal Potentials During the Application of Diffuse Electrical Currents.- Section 3 Electrosleep and Electro-Anesthesia.- The Basic Rest-Activity Cycle (Abstract Paper).- Basal Forebrain Structures and the Electrical Induction of Sleep (Abstract Paper).- A Preliminary Study of the Use of Electrosleep Therapy in Clinical Psychiatry.- Electrode Position in Electro-Sleep.- Electrosleep in Man by a Combination of Magneto-Inductive and Transtemporal Electric Currents.- Electrostimulation of Deep Brain Structures.- Clinical Experiences: Electro-Anesthesia.- Electroanesthesia Studies: Site of Current Action.