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PAUL D. MacLEAN, MD; SUSHIL DUA, PhD; ROLLIN H. DENNISTON, PhD

Arch Neurol. 1963;9(5):485-497.

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In a previous study it was found that either with chemical excitation of the dorsal hippocampus, or following afterdischarges induced by electrical stimulation, male cats showed excessive grooming and bodily scratching and sometimes penile erection.⁷ The picture was suggestive of aspects of courtship behavior in male cats. Similar behavior was elicited in rats. These findings were of particular interest because heretofore there existed little evidence that cerebral stimulation could elicit overt sexual responses.

Such considerations served as the impetus for conducting a series of brain stimulation studies in the squirrel monkey in which we have looked specifically for sexual responses.^14,11,9 Thus far we have systematically explored the midline cortical and brain stem structures from the frontal pole to the level of the medulla, as well as the amygdala and greater part of the hippocampus.¹⁰ Between the caudal thalamus and the medulla points have been located at which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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BETHESDA, MD

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 29, 1963; accepted Aug 15.

Part of the material of this paper, together with a short motion picture, was presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, June 26, 1962.

Visiting Associate from Department of Physiology, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (S. Dua); Visiting Special Research Fellow of National Institute of Mental Health from Department of Physiology, University of Wyoming (R. H. Denniston).

Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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