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Science 1 January 1965:
Vol. 147. no. 3653, pp. 61 - 63
DOI: 10.1126/science.147.3653.61
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Spreading Depression and Recovery from Lateral Hypothalamic Damage

Philip Teitelbaum 1 and Jerzy Cytawa 2

1 Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2 Department of Human Physiology, Lublin School of Medicine, Lublin, Poland

Spreading cortical depression reinstates aphagia and adipsia in rats recovered from lateral hypothalamic lesions. We suggest that cortical activity facilitates and maintains recovery by enhancing the activity of depressed, but intact, tissue adjacent to the lesions.


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