Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770-1831)
Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857-1952)
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was a British neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons (the “neuron doctrine”), and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated.
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About the Charles Scott Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was a British neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neuronsis a synthesis of this work, in recognition of which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 (along with Edgar Adrian).
In addition to his work in physiology, Sherrington did research in histology, bacteriology, and pathology. He was president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.
4 Quotes by Charles Scott Sherrington
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Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.
Charles Scott SherringtonEnglish footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857-1952)
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That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
Charles Scott SherringtonEnglish footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857-1952)
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In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.
Charles Scott SherringtonEnglish footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857-1952)
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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
Charles Scott SherringtonEnglish footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857-1952)