ABSTRACT
The scientific theory of neuroses that is I. P. Pavlov is in a continual state of development. Its fundamental postulate, that the neuroses represent excessive strain of excitatory and inhibitory processes or of their mobility, has as yet received little direct study at a neurophysiological level. In the Pavlovian laboratories, the concept of experimental neurosis originally grew out of attempts to explain chronic impairment in the acquisition and performance of conditioned salivary reflexes to exteroceptive stimuli. It is natural to expect that systematic research into the problem of experimental neurosis in nonhuman primates can contribute further to understanding of the causes and mechanisms of neurosis in man. The attempt to produce experimental neurosis in monkeys was undertaken by S. D. Kaminskii. Neurosis did not develop in monkeys with unbalanced nervous processes but was comparatively easy to produce in monkeys with weak nervous systems.
