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Goldensohn and Purpura at about the same time^24 and had been hy­

pothesized by Bremer in the early forties as part of the strychnine effects.^25

Figure 2. Paroxysmal Depolarization Shift

Original example of “paroxysmal depolarization shift” (lower channel), obtained from

intracellular recording of a cortical neuron in a cat, following surface topical application of

penicillin. (Calibrations: 1&10 mV and 100 c/s).

Donated to the Office of NIH History by Dr. Cosimo Ajmone-Marsan

Notes

1. Pearce Bailey, “National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness:
   Origins, Founding, and Early Years (1950 to 1959),” in The Nervous System:
   A Three-Volume Work Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the National
   Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Vol. 1: The
   Basic Neurosciences, ed. Donald B. Tower and Roscoe O. Brady (New York:
   Raven Press, 1975), xxi-xxxii.


2. Richard L. Masland, “National Institute of Neurological Diseases and
   Blindness: Development and Growth (1960-1968),” Ibid., xxxiii-xlvi.


3. Edward F. MacNichol, Jr., “National Institute of Neurological Diseases and
   Stroke (1968-1973),” Ibid., xlvii-lii.


4. Herbert H. Jasper and Cosimo Ajmone-Marsan, A Stereotaxic Atlas of the
   Diencephalon of the Cat (Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada,
   1954).