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Changes in muscle electrical activity were studied during local static work until “refusal” under ordinary conditions and during inhibition of the program monitoring functions of the cortex (in the somnambulic stage of hypnosis). The experimental results show that the duration of maintenance of static effort in hypnosis was twice that in the control, and electrical activity of the muscles was increased on the average by 1.5–2 times or, in some experiments, by 3–4 times. In the light of these results the mechanism of formation of “refusal” to work may assume the form of active cessation of activity of the central structures responsible for the program monitoring function.
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Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 80, No. 8, pp. 12–14, August, 1975.
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Moikin, Y.V., Poberezhskaya, A.S. Mechanism of work refusal through fatigue reflected in electromyographic changes under hypnosis. Bull Exp Biol Med 80, 862–864 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00789255
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00789255