ascending reticular activating system

Japanese: ascending reticular activating system(英語表記)ascendingreticularactivatingsystem
ascending reticular activating system

…He later served as professor at the University of California, Los Angeles' Institute of Neurology and at the University of California, Los Angeles, and contributed to the establishment of the University's Brain Research Institute. In 1949, in collaboration with G. Murzzi, he discovered that in addition to the sensory pathways (specialized thalamic projection system) known up until that point in the thalamus, there was another sensory pathway (also called the widespread thalamic projection system, since it was a common pathway for each sense) that branched off from it. He named this the ascending reticular activating system, and clarified that it controls the level of arousal and activation in animals, that is, that it plays an important role in maintaining consciousness. [Kitou Shuichi] …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "ascending reticular activating system" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…その後同大学神経学研究所教授,カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校教授を歴任,同大学の脳研究所設立に寄与した。1949年,ムルッジG.Murzziと共同して,それまで知られていた視床に存在する感覚経路(特殊視床投射系)のほかに,その枝分れとして別の感覚経路(各感覚について共通の経路となっているので広範視床投射系ともいう)があることを発見,これを〈上行性網様体賦活系ascending reticular activating system〉と名づけ,それが動物の覚醒・喚起ないし活性化の水準をつかさどること,つまり意識を保持するうえに重要な役割をしていることを明らかにした。【鬼頭 秀一】。…

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