[A method for assessing the functional state of an animal (cat) during the modelling of neurotic pathology]

The study was aimed to accumulate and classify the data on different degrees of experimental neurotic pathology. Experiments were carried out with cats using the method of food-procuring conditioning. Behavioural, vegetative reactions and a set of electrophysiological characteristics were recorded. The experimental neurotization was evoked by different factors: acute emotional stress, chronic stress, artificially increased and lowered brain activation. Classification of the facts obtained allowed to create a scale of parameters corresponding to different degrees of pathology (weak, middle, deep). Every characteristic may be quantitatively estimated using the scale. The summarized evaluation was used to determine the functional state of an experimental animal.