Favourable effect of physical exercise on informational pathology of higher nervous activity.

As a model of neurotic states induced by information overload experimental neurotic states were evoked in 13 dogs reared under conditions of partial social isolation by shortening the intertrial intervals in an alimentary conditioned reflex situation with delayed reinforcement. Both behavioural and autonomous disturbances were completely abolished in 4 of 5 dogs which were systematically exposed to muscular activity. Similar protective and therapeutic effect had the muscular exercise which formed a main component of the therapy in 59 neurotic subjects.