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Science 4 March 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3401, pp. 662 - 664
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3401.662
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Effect of Lesions in the Septal Forebrain of the Rat on Sleeping Time under Barbiturate

Alfred Heller 1, John A. Harvey 1, Howard F. Hunt 1, and Lloyd J. Roth 1

1 Departments of Pharmacology and Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Rats with electrolytic lesions in the septal forebrain show increased sleeping times after injection with thiopental sodium or barbital, as compared with normal and other control rats and rats with lesions in the cerebral cortex or caudate nucleus.


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