[Autonomic provision for some forms of activity in focal lesions of the limbo-reticular complex (results of a mathematical analysis of cardiac rhythm)].

The author studied vegetative provisions in different forms of activiity (mental, physical and emotional) detected in focal lesions of the limbico-reticular structure of 91 patients and 9 normals. Among the studied contingent 38 had focal lesions of the temporal lobe, 31 -- of the hypothalamus and 22--of the brain stem. Vegetative activity was studied by registrations of the frequency of heart contractions and by a subsequent mathematical processing. It was possible to demonstrate an excessive degree of vegetative provision in all groups the following factors: the localization of the process, the initial degree of vegetative disturbances, the expressiveness of emotional changes. In a moderate expressiveness of psycho-vegetative disturbances there is a higher degree of vegetative provisions than in expressed psychovegetative syndromes. These data may serve as an explantation to the origination of such clinical conditions as asthenical states and disorders of adaptation in different forms of activity.