Cortical excitability and steady potentials
Subtitle: relations of basic research to space biology; proceedings of the first conference, 1961. Editor: Mary A. B. Brazier
Series: UCLA forum in medical sciences -- no. 1; Brain function -- v. 1
Publisher: Univ. of California Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Brain; Physiology; Congresses; Cerebral Cortex; Space Flight; Brain function; Cerebral cortex; Space flight; Physiological effect
Notes: Brain function, v. 1.

Sponsored by the Brain Research Institute in collaboration with the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Historical Introduction. The discoverers of the steady potentials of the brain: Caton and Beck / M.A.B. Brazier; title: Ultrastructure and chemical organization of synapses in the central nervous system / E. de Robertis; title: Metabolic and electrical measurements with isolated cerebral tissues / H. McIlwain; title: On the spread of spreading depression / A.A.P. Leão; title: Neuronal release of potassium during spreading depression / B. Grafstein; title: Studies on learning; title: F. Morrell, Effect of transcortical polarizing currents; title: V. Rowland, Steady potential shifts in cortex; title: Discussion: W.R. Adey, R. Livingston, R.J. Gumnit; title: Relations of steady potential shifts in the cortex to the wakefulness-sleep spectrum / H. Caspers; title: Negative steady potential shifts which lead to seizure discharge / S. Goldring; title: The unidirectional potential changes in petit mal epilepsy / J.A.V. Bates, Group Interchange; title: Review and critique / D.P. Purpura; title: Commentary: O.E. Reynolds; title: Part II.; title: Aspects of brain physiology in the space environment / W.R. Adey; title: Studies of brains exposed to cosmic rays and to accelerated alpha particles / W. Haymaker; title: Relations of basic research to space science / J.P. Henry; title: Index of subjects; title: Index of names.