The Integrative Action of the Nervous System

Name: The Integrative Action of the Nervous System
Rating: 4.18
ISBN: 9781332313273

ISBN: 9781332313273 出版年：2016 页码：426 Charles Scott Sherrington Forgotten Books

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Introductory — CO — ordination IN the simple reflex Argument: The nervous system and the integration of bodily reactions. Characteristics of integration by nervous agency. The unit mechanism in integration by the nervous system is the reﬂex. Coordination of reﬂexes one with another. CO ordination in the simple reflex. Conduction in the reﬂex-arc. Function Of the receptor to lower for its reﬂex-arc the threshold value Of one kind Of stimulus and to heighten the threshold value of all other kinds of stimuli for that arc: it thus confers selective excitability on the arc. Differences between con duction in nerve-trunks and in reﬂex-arcs respectively. These probably largely referable to the intercalation of synaptic mem branes in the conductive mechanism Of the arc. Latent time of reﬂexes. Reﬂex latency inversely proportional to intensity of stimulation. Latency Of initial and incremental reﬂexes. None of the latent interval consumed in establishing connec tion between the elements Of a resting arc. After-discharge a characteristic Of reﬂex reactions. Increase of after-discharge by intensification of the stimulus, or by prolongation Of short stimuli. Inertia and momentum of reﬂex-arc reactions.

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J Dees

The printer screwed up. All charts throughout the book are underexposed - blacked-out. I’ve got to find someone who still has a legible copy of this book.

Livin'Life

Gift for someone. This person was very pleased

Brian Malley

This classic work in neuroscience was originally published in 1906, and was soon recognized as a classic, becoming a standard citation in subsequent work. Sherrington won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology largely based on the discoveries presented in this book. Sherrington starts with simple reflex actions and works his way up to the brain, illuminating design principles as he goes. He is most widely recognized for his Principle of Reciprocal Innervation, but he also presents the Principle of the Central Path and other genuinely important keys to understanding the nervous system. He retains a comparative physiological perspective throughout, so you get a really good sense of how the design of the human nervous system makes sense in comparison to other designs. There is a lot of gold in here, and I think every neuroscientist, biologist, psychologist, and anthropologist owes it to him/herself to read it. It contains important ideas with wide psychological and anthropological implications. That said, it is not an easy read: this is a book for educated readers, and, being anthropologist/psychologist, I often had to reach for a dictionary to discover the meaning of physiological terms. Sure, some of it is dated, but only in the sense of being relatively basic: I think there is a lot to be said for reading discoveries in their original context, so that you really can appreciate the fundamentals. This book is priceless in that regard.For more of Sherrington, I highly recommend his later work, Man on His Nature (first edition, 1941), in which Sherrington gives his mature reflections on the nature of Life and Mind. Again, a challenging read, but well worth the effort to study.I purchased a nice copy of the Gryphon Classics of Medicine edition published in 1989. It is leather-bound and absolutely beautiful. The page numbers are all the same as the original, which is helpful for citation and whatnot. Beautifully crafted. Sherrington's later work is also available in

PIEM23

Livre constitué de photocopies dont une grande partie sont noires, surtout les schémas. L'acheteur n'est même pas prévenu, pour moi c'est de l'escroquerie

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