Exciting Quote by Charles Scott Sherrington

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second…

— John Desmond Bernal

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

— Hollis Frampton

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions,…

— Doris Humphrey

Nerves are natural, it means you're ready to face a challenge and perform.

— Dan Carter

The mind is a muscle.

— Robert Wilson

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

— Wilhelm Wundt

The mind is just another muscle.

— Ted Turner

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

— Patricia Churchland

“The state of my nerves precludes any more active an existence”

— Lee Smith

In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory…

— Ivan Pavlov