| Abstract: | The results of many years of investigations of the features of the functional state and physiological activity of some structures of the striopallidum (Cd, GP, Put) and thalamus (VP, VL, CM) as links in the brain systems of the organization of mental and motor activity in patients with various forms of parkinsonism are presented in generalized form. The possibilities for the use of various types of ultraslow physiological processes to study the brain mechanisms of the activational and emotional states, with more precise definition of the role of structures of the striopallidal complex in the formation of systems supporting these types of mental activity in parkinsonism, are reviewed. Laboratory of the Physiology of the States of the Brain and Organism, Institute of Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg. Translated from Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 78–87, January, 1994. |
