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Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena > Nervous System Physiological Phenomena > Higher Nervous Activity
Psychological Phenomena > Mental Processes > Higher Nervous Activity

Preferred term

Higher Nervous Activity  

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Note

  • this expression is found intact as "vysshaia nervnaia deiatel'nost" in Russian neurophysiol literature

Scope note

  • A term used in Eastern European research literature on brain and behavior physiology for cortical functions. It refers to the highest level of integrative function of the brain, centered in the CEREBRAL CORTEX, regulating language, thought, and behavior via sensory, motor, and cognitive processes.

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  • 65(64)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006613

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