[Homosynaptic depression of the monosynaptic spinal reflex in healthy people and patients, suffering from a cerebral stroke].

: Homosynaptic depression of H-reflex was studied in 25 healthy persons and 33 patients with hemiplegia. The mean duration of the homosynaptic depression in healthy persons was 5200 ms. After the initial relative facilitation the time course of the homosynaptic depression corresponded to a logarithmic function of the interval between the conditioning and testing stimuli. The homosynaptic depression in patients with hemiplegia decreased depending on the degree of the muscular spasticity.