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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/30042
Title: Behavioural and Electrophysiological Studies of Sleep and Animal Hypnosis
Authors: Harper, Ronald
Advisor: Heron, W.
Department: Psychology
Keywords: psychology;hypnosis;sleep;brain;electrical;electroencephalogram;electromyography;emg;neuroscience;neurology
Publication Date: Jun-1968
Abstract: EEG, EMG, and single cell activity were examined under states of animal hypnosis, sleep, and wakefulness. Rabbits and chickens were repetitively hypnotized to determine whether animal hypnosis was caused by a fear reaction. Differential susceptibility of chickens and rabbits to animal hypnosis suggests that more than a "paralysis of terror" is involved in causing this state. There was a difference in theta frequency in records from moving and still animals, and a 13-18 Hz component appeared on many records during synchronized and desynchronized sleep. A large number of cells fired with respect to certain EEG conditions rather than to a behavioural state. EEG and single cell activity obtained during early hypnosis were very similar to those appearing in an animal that was sitting alert.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/30042
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