[Rate of excitation spread along a peripheral nerve in healthy infants in the 1st year of life and in infants who have had intrauterine hypoxia and asphyxia at birth].

The velocity in the extension of excitation through the peripheral nerves was studied in 99 normal babies of the first year and in 135 children with intrauteral hypoxia and asphyxia during delivery. In children with perinatal lesions of the CNS there were changes in the absolute volumes of the velocity of excitation and the rate of its increase compared with the group of normal children. The data correlate with the results of histological studies of the peripheral nerve.