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IT is fairly well known that there are slow rhythmic changes in the nervous system with frequencies less than 1 hertz which are supposed to be due to the irradiation of excitation from the respiratory centre during inspiration and/or expiration1,2. Some of these changes manifest themselves as rhythmic movements of the extremities.
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DVOŘÁK, J. Interaction of Slow Rhythmic Changes in the Nervous System. Nature 198, 1095 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981095a0
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