Effect of Striated Muscle Paralysis Induced with Erythroidine upon the Electroencephalogram (E. E. G.)

Summary

So long as proper artificial respiration is given, normal cortical activity, as measured by the E. E. G., persists undisturbed in both the dog and the monkey during complete striated muscular paralysis induced with erythroidine. The difference in results reported here with mammals and that previously reported by other workers in the frog (complete elimination of the E. E. G.) is interpreted to be due to a reduction in the available oxygen necessary for normal cortical metabolism in the latter organism.