Hippocampal Slow Waves

The functions of the temporal lobe, and its preponderant role in the integrative aspects of social behavior, are well known (Bucy and Klüver,¹³1939) and have been the subject of recent reviews (Adey,²1959; Baldwin and Bailey,⁸1958). To some extent, physiological dissection of the picture of "psychic blindness" characterizing the complete bilateral temporal lobectomy has been possible with more limited resections, with aspects of hypersexuality, loss of memory, taming, and exaggerated rage responses, each reported as the dominant aspect of a variety of limited resections in man and animals (Adey,¹1958; Bard and Mountcastle,¹⁰1948; Green, Clemente, and de Groot,²⁴1958; Schreiner and Kling,⁴⁵1953; Scoville and Milner,⁴⁶1957). Historically, the limbic lobe, set as a ring of cortex at the medial margin of the hemisphere, has been described as a somatic integrating center concerned with the integration of somatic influxes