. Kirkes' handbook of physiology . Fig. 410. Figs. 409 and 410.—Diagrams of Monkeys Brain to Show the Effects of Electric Stimulationof Certain Spots. (According to Ferrier.) motor areas for the arm produces some permanent paralysis of the arm ofthe opposite side, and similarly of that for the leg, paralysis of the opppsiteleg. If both areas are destroyed, permanent hemiplegia ensues. Paralysisof so extensive and permanent a character does not, however, appear therule when the brain of a dog is used instead of that of the monkey. It issuggested that in the animal lower in the scale the functio


. Kirkes' handbook of physiology . Fig. 410. Figs. 409 and 410.—Diagrams of Monkeys Brain to Show the Effects of Electric Stimulationof Certain Spots. (According to Ferrier.) motor areas for the arm produces some permanent paralysis of the arm ofthe opposite side, and similarly of that for the leg, paralysis of the opppsiteleg. If both areas are destroyed, permanent hemiplegia ensues. Paralysisof so extensive and permanent a character does not, however, appear therule when the brain of a dog is used instead of that of the monkey. It issuggested that in the animal lower in the scale the functions which in the MOTOR AREAS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN 581 monkey are discharged by the cortical centers may be subserved to a greaterextent by the basal ganglia. Motor Areas of the Human Brain. It is naturally of great impor-tance to discover how far the results of experiments upon the dog and monkey. Fig. 411.—Motor Areas of the Human Brain, Lateral View.


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