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The contribution of genetic factors to the formation of the neurophysiological mechanisms of cortical-subcortical integration was studied in 12 pairs of monozygotic and five pairs of dizygotic twins (aged 18–25 years). Intrapair similarity of the nature of spatial interactions between bioelectrical activity in the cerebral cortex, assessed from different combinations of statistical interactions of EEG from 16 monopolar recordings, was assessed in each pair of twins (and among 544 non-related pairs of subjects in both groups). The results suggest a high level of general population invariance and relatively small inherited and phenotypic variability in the morphofunctional systems making up the major neurophysiological mechanisms of brain integration as a whole. The ontogenetic formation of stem and subcortical regulatory structures, which have a leading role in the systems combination of different parts of the brain into a single formation, appears to occur in all individuals by the same principle, as disturbance can apparently affect the fundamental monomorphic features of the species. In turn, we might expect to find large interindividual variability in the establishment of interregional connections of the neocortex, the role of inherited and environmental factors being different in the processes forming long and relatively short intercortical interactions.
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Ivonin, A.A., Tsitseroshin, M.N., Pogosyan, A.A. et al. Genetic Determination of Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Cortical-Subcortical Integration of Bioelectrical Brain Activity. Neurosci Behav Physiol 34, 369–378 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:NEAB.0000018749.36457.d9
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