RT Journal
T1 COnditioned reflexes and neuron organization
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD April 9
VO 139
IS 15
SP 1045
OP 1045
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900320075040
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900320075040
AB This is the most recent publication on neurophysiology and is excellent. The author worked for many years under the guidance of Pavlov in Leningrad. He has attempted to extend the Sherrington conception of the functioning of the nervous system to the field of higher nervous activity. This was done on the basis of enormous experimental material collected by the Pavlov school. Konorski believes that the doctrine of Pavlov is not entirely correct and has accepted the Sherrington principle of neuron excitation with a few reservations. The author has assumed that the elaboration of a conditioned reflex consists in the formation of new functional connections in the brain. Further, he states that if a combination of excitations which results in aplastic change is not repeated a greater or lesser regression of this change occurs (atrophy of the synaptic connections. Further, he assumes that internal inhibition consists in the formation of new