Influence of "animal hypnosis" on the motor polarizational dominant in rabbits.

The influence of the state of "animal hypnosis" in rabbits on the course and preservation of the motor polarizational dominant created by the action of a direct current anode on the region of the sensorimotor cortex was investigated. The mechanogram of both forelimbs was recorded. It was demonstrated that the state of "animal hypnosis" induced against the background of the optimum of the dominant inhibits the motor reaction of the "dominant" limb to sensory test stimuli. This inhibition is maintained for a long time, up to two to four days. The motor polarizational dominant does not extinguish under the influence of "animal hypnosis," but is inhibited; after the extinction of the traces of the "hypnosis," the motor dominant reaction recovers under the influence of sensory test stimuli alone, without the repeated use of the direct current.