decerebration
Sign in to saveDecerebration is the elimination of cerebral brain function in an animal by removing the cerebrum, cutting across the brain stem, or severing certain arteries in the brain stem.
Research
6,932 papers- [Decerebration and decortication].Shinkei kenkyu no shimpo. Advances in neurological sciences · 1967
- Hepatic decerebration.Neurology · 1972
- Recovery from decerebration.Brain : a journal of neurology · 1970
- Reversible hepatic decerebration: a case report and review of the literature.European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology · 2010
- Cryogenic decerebration.Archives of neurology · 1965
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Decerebration is the elimination of cerebral brain function in an animal by removing the cerebrum, cutting across the brain stem, or severing certain arteries in the brain stem.
As a result, the animal loses certain reflexes that are integrated in different parts of the brain. Furthermore, the reflexes which are functional will be hyperreactive (and therefore very accentuated) due to the removal of inhibiting higher- brain centers (e.g. the facilitatory area of the reticular formation will not receive regulating input from cerebellum, basal ganglia and the cortex).
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