Monografiya posvyashchaetsya pamyati moego uchitelya, zasluzhennogo deyatelya nauki RF Ol"gi Sergeevny Vinogradovoy. Osnovnye dannye,opisannye zdes", polucheny v laboratorii, rukovodimoy eyu do2001g. Krome eksperimental"nogo materiala, kniga soderzhitobzor i obsuzhdenie literatury, kasayushcheysya funktsional"noyroli i mekhanizmov organizatsii teta-ritma, – voprosov, kotoryedo sikh por ne resheny, i po sey den" zanimayut umy mnogikhuchenykh vo vsem mire. Issledovaniya na bodrstvuyushchikh zhivotnykh,perezhivayushchikh srezakh mozga i transplantirovannoy nervnoytkani pokazali sostoyatel"nost" gipotezy o septal"nomproiskhozhdenii teta-ostsillyatsiy, a takzhe vazhnost"monoaminergicheskikh vliyaniy dlya ikh kontrolya. Na osnovaniipoluchennykh faktov i analize sovremennoy literatury vmonografii razvivaetsya predstavlenie o teta-ritme, kakfil"tre, osushchestvlyayushchem selektivnyy propusk novoy iznachimoy informatsii k sisteme zapisi v pamyati. Predstavlenatakzhe model" vzaimodeystviy septo-gippokampal"noy sistemyi stvolovykh struktur v organizatsii etoy funktsiimozga. Monografiya otrazhaet literaturnye dannye do 2006 g.Naibolee vazhnye ssylki na sovremennye raboty, kasayushchiesyateta-ostsillyatsiy, vneseny avtorom pri podgotovke truda k pechati.