"Further study of central nervous action, however, finds……" — Charles Scott Sherrington
"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."
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Charles Scott Sherrington
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14 Quotes by Charles Scott Sherrington
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Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and…
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If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more…
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Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never…
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He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal…
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As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross…
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The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's…
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This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual,…
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That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to…
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The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve…
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With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined…
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Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the…
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That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than…
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