Hippocampal Slow Waves

Abstract

The functions of the temporal lobe, and its preponderant role in the integrative aspects of social behavior, are well known (Bucy and Klüver,131939) and have been the subject of recent reviews (Adey,21959; Baldwin and Bailey,81958). To some extent, physiological dissection of the picture of "psychic blindness" characterizing the complete bilateral temporal lobectomy has been possible with more limited resections, with aspects of hypersexuality, loss of memory, taming, and exaggerated rage responses, each reported as the dominant aspect of a variety of limited resections in man and animals (Adey,11958; Bard and Mountcastle,101948; Green, Clemente, and de Groot,241958; Schreiner and Kling,451953; Scoville and Milner,461957). Historically, the limbic lobe, set as a ring of cortex at the medial margin of the hemisphere, has been described as a somatic integrating center concerned with the integration of somatic influxes