The work described in this thesis has had as its aim the development of quantitative techniques for the study of the moments at which neurons in the mammalian cerebral cortex produce action potentials both in the presence and absence of externally applied stimulation. In support of the usefulness of these techniques as tools in biological research exploratory experiments are to be described in which a quantitative estimate was made of the influence exerted by a stimulus upon neurons in locations classically considered to be remote from the sphere of influence of the stimulus. In the course of these experiments several analytical techniques have been applied to the action potentials continually generated by neurons in the unstimulated brain.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113532 |
| Date | January 1961 |
| Creators | Smith, Grant. K. |
| Contributors | Burns, B. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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