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Science 5 June 1964:
Vol. 144. no. 3623, pp. 1249 - 1250
DOI: 10.1126/science.144.3623.1249
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Attack Elicited by Stimulation of the Thalamus of Cats

Malcolm F. MacDonnell 1 and John P. Flynn 1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Electrical stimulation of sites in the medial thalamus leads to attack upon rats. This attack summates with attack elicited by hypothalamic stimulation. Stimulation of other thalamic sites suppresses hypothalamic attack, while excitation of still others facilitates it.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)