The Nature of Balance of the Nervous Properties According to the Basic Properties of the Nervous System

Abstract

One of the conclusions advanced in Chapter 2 was that equilibrium, unlike other properties of the nervous system, does not exist as an independent property. It is a secondary property, determined by the relationship between the excitatory and inhibitory processes of the property in question. We shall now examine the nature of these relationships, which is a specific, but important, problem in the general area of nervous system properties (Nebylitsyn, 1964a). Theoretically, there are two basic types of relationship— one assuming a complete freedom to vary, the other, complete dependence between the two aspects of nervous functioning.