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An Experimental Study of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: An Apallic‐Like Syndrome
Author(s) -
Yukitake Akira
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1973.tb02665.x
Subject(s) - neuropsychiatry , carbon monoxide poisoning , co poisoning , citation , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , library science , medical emergency , poison control , computer science , chemistry , biochemistry , catalysis
The cat that had been subjected experimentally to carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, failed to perform the avoidance response in a shuttle box, and the severe cases seemed to have lost the ability of relearning of avoidance response.u Carrying the experiment, we often obtained cats with severer sequelae than those reported before. The feature of the sequelae appeared to correspond to the apallic syndrome presented clinically by Kretchmer." Kretchmer considered that this syndrome might rarely occur in poisonings. Afterwards, some reports124 have been made of the apallic syndrome caused by CO poisoning, and we had also experienced similar casesG This report is concerned with the behavioral and electrophysiological aspects of animals manifesting the apallic-like syndrome after CO exposure.