Investigation of the effects of the age of the rat when it begins a series of electroshock convulsions upon the relative amount and duration of subsequent behavioral impairment is needed to help clarify the factors which influence postconvulsive behavior in the rat, and thus to contribute to a theory of such behavior. Various hypotheses have been advanced (4, 5) concerning the effects of age at the time of convulsive treatment in the rat, but only Hayes (5), to this writer's knowledge, has published relevant data, and this was incidental to his primary experimental concern.
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