Effect of clozapine on the behavioral and electrographic indices of the arrest function of the caudate nucleus in cats
Arushanian, E.B.; Tolpyshev, B.A.
Biulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny 85(5): 541-544
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0365-9615 PMID: 566138 Document Number: 134760
In unrestrained cats clozapine in increasing doses (1--5 mg/kg) caused a behavioural depression and suppression of amphetamine-induced stereotypy of behaviour against the background of marked vegetative shifts. Similarly to chlorpromazine clozapine intensified the behavioural arrest reaction) and electrographic (neocortical caudate spindle) indices of the arrest function of the caudate nucleus. Arrest reaction changed more distinctly in stimulation of the ventral parts of the head of the nucleus. Clozapine also eliminated the weakening of the caudate responses caused by the stereotypical doses of amphetamine.