The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To-day the dictum must be modified to admit that, often, to refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one, because inhibition is coequally with excitation a nervous activity.
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of… - Charles Scott Sherrington
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of…
- Charles Scott Sherrington
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection… - Charles Scott Sherrington
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection…
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curt… - Charles Scott Sherrington
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curt…
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the pro… - Charles Scott Sherrington
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the pro…
If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex as the scratch-refle… - 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 as the scratch-refle…
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space. - Charles Scott Sherrington
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To… - Charles Scott Sherrington
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To…
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord. - Charles Scott Sherrington
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmoni… - Charles Scott Sherrington
With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmoni…
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