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The systemic approach to the stability and plasticity of neurophysiological processes during adaptive brain activity

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The problem of the stability and adaptability of regulatory processes is considered, taking as a point of departure N. P. Bekhtereva's theory regarding stable pathological states, and inflexible and adaptable links in control systems. The need to introduce a probabilistic approach is emphasized. Generalizations are made on materials relating to the connectability of the separate components of the biorhythms of functional systems, and to the stability of their amplitude-frequency characteristics. The corpus of facts permitted the successful development in clinical practice of functional biocontrol and feedback.

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Translated from Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal SSSR imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 70, No. 7, pp. 961–967, July, 1984.

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Vasilevskii, V.N. The systemic approach to the stability and plasticity of neurophysiological processes during adaptive brain activity. Neurosci Behav Physiol 16, 333–339 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01148177

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