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Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott Sir Charles Sherrington Corbis-Bettmann (b. Nov. 27, 1857, London, Eng.d. March 4, 1952, Eastbourne, Sussex), English physiologist whose 50 years of experimentation laid the foundations for an understanding of integrated nervous function in higher animals and brought him (with Edgar Adrian ) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932. Sherrington was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (B.A. 1883); at St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School, where he qualified in medicine in 1885; and at the University of Berlin, where he worked with Rudolf Virchow and Robert Koch. After serving as a lecturer at St. Thomas' Hospital, he was successively a professor at the universities of London (1891-95), Liverpool (1895-1913), and Oxford (1913-35). He was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1893 and served as its president from 1920 to 1925. He was knighted in 1922. Working with cats, dogs, monkeys, and apes that had been deprived of their cerebral hemispheres, Sherrington found that reflexes must be regarded as integrated activities of the total organism, not as the result of the activities of isolated "reflex arcs," a notion that was currently accepted. The first major piece of evidence supporting "total integration" was his demonstration (1895-98) of the "reciprocal innervation" of muscles, also known as Sherrington's law: when one set of muscles is stimulated, muscles opposing the action of the first are simultaneously inhibited.

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Relief of Pain and Suffering Facial expression of pain drawn by Sir Charles Bell (From: The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression: as Connected with the Fine Arts . 5th ed. London : Henry G. Bohn, 1865) By the 1890s, physiological and medical concepts of pain, as of the body and of disease generally, had become mechanistic, localized, and empirical. The work of Rudolf Virchow in the 1850s and 1860s had demonstrated the cellular damage associated with infection and trauma. The experimental findings of physiologists in France, Germany, and England supported mechanical models of body functions. The work of Charles Bell and , showing that the posterior roots of the spinal nerves responded to sensations whereas the anterior roots appeared to be associated with motor responses, laid the groundwork for the idea of a dedicated neural pathway of pain sensation, elaborated in 1839 by theory of " specific nerve energies ." Further confirmation came from the work of on the pain pathway in the spinal cord ; from the contributions of John Hughlings Jackson and others, suggesting specific locations of various function in the brain; and from the experiments of Max von

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Charles Scott Sherrington From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Charles Sherrington Sherrington is considered one of the fathers of neuroscience Sir Charles Scott Sherrington November 27 March 4 ) was a British scientist known for his contributions to physiology and neuroscience . He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Douglas Adrian for their work with neurons Contents Research Biography Bibliography External link ... edit Research Sherrington used reflexes in the spinal cord as a way of investigating the general properties of neurons and the nervous system . These experiments led him to postulate "Sherrington's Law," which states that for every neural activation of a muscle , there is a corresponding inhibition of the opposing muscle. Sherrington is also known for his study of the synapse , a word which he coined for the then-theoretical connecting point of neurons. One of Sherrington's students, John Carew Eccles later won the Nobel Prize in for his work on the synapse. Other neuroscience research done by Sherrington investigated proprioception and the neural control of posture In addition to the nervous system, Sherrington studied a number of pressing medical issues of his time. In

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Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott English neurophysiologist who studied the structure and function of the nervous system. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System 1906 formulated the principles of reflex action. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1932. He showed that when one set of antagonistic muscles is activated, the opposing set is inhibited. This theory of reciprocal innervation is known as Sherrington's law. Sherrington also identified the regions of the brain that govern movement and sensation in particular parts of the body. Sherrington was born in London and studied there at St Thomas's Hospital and at Cambridge. He became professor at London University's veterinary institute 1891, at Liverpool 1895, and was professor of physiology at Oxford 1913-35. During World War I, for three months he worked incognito as a labourer in a munitions factory, and the observations he made there did much to improve safety for factory workers. One of Sherrington's findings, published 1894, was that the nerve supply to muscles contains 25-50% sensory fibres, as well as motor fibres concerned with stimulating muscle contraction. The sensory fibres carry sensation to the brain so that it can determine, for example, the degree of tension in the muscles. Sherrington divided the sense organs into three groups: interoceptive, characterized by taste receptors; exteroceptive, such as receptors that detect sound, smell, light, and touch; and proprioceptive, which involve the function of the synapse (Sherrington's word) and respond to events inside the body.

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King's College London Archives Services - Summary Guide Brown Animal Sanatory Institution [SHERRINGTON, Sir Charles Scott (1857-1952)] 3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA 3.1.1 Reference code(s) : GB 0100 TH/PP 3.1.2 Title: Brown Animal Sanatory Institution [SHERRINGTON, Sir Charles Scott (1857-1952)] 3.1.3 Date(s) 3.1.4 Level of description : Collection (fonds) 3.1.5 Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk or size) : 1 volume 3.2 CONTEXT AREA 3.2.1 Name of creator(s) : Brown Institute 3.2.2 Administrative/Biographical history : Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) was Professor-Superintenden of the Brown Institution, which specialised in research into diseases of domestic animals. The Institute was situated in Wandsworth Road, South West London and was destroyed by bombing in 1909. Sherrington was later Professor of Pathology, University of London, and Lecturer on Physiology at St Thomas's Hospital. 3.2.3 Archival history : The volume appears to have been deposited at St Thomas's Medical School Library through Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, who became Lecturer on Physiology at St Thomas's Hospital. 3.2.4 Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

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Charles Scott Sherrington [Categories: 1952 deaths, 1857 births, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners, Neuroscientists, British scientists] Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (The people of Great Britain) British (A person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences) scientist known for his contributions to (The branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms) physiology and (The scientific study of the nervous system) neuroscience . He shared the 1932 (Click link for more info and facts about Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with (English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st Baron of Cambridge (1889-1997)) Edgar Douglas Adrian for their work with (A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses) neuron s. Research Sherrington used (An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus) reflex es in the (A major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tube-like structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region) spinal cord as a way of investigating the general properties of neurons and the (The sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells) nervous system . These experiments led him to postulate "Sherrington's Law," which states that for every neural activation of a

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magdalen history nobel laureates sir charles sherrington undergraduate admissions graduate admissions college life history ... internal website Charles Scott Sherrington was born in November 1857 and was educated at Caius College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Fellowship in 1887. He was Professor of Physiology at the University of Liverpool between 1895 and 1913 when he came to Magdalen College as Waynflete Professor of Physiology. He was President of the Royal Society between 1920 and 1925. Sherrington lived to an immense age and dedicated his life to the study of the nervous system. His ideas published in 1904 as 'The Integrative Action of the Nervous System' put the field onto a new plane with the realisation that the unit reaction of the nevous system was the simple spinal reflex. The role of the nervous system was to correlate the individual activities of all the cells of the body from which a new entity results - the animal itself. Over the next forty years he went on to publish over 200 papers, nearly all of primary importance. His Gifford Lectures of 1937-8 were published as 'Man and his Nature' and resulted from his researches into the philosophy and science of the 16th and 17th centuries. But his interests went far beyond the study of the nervous system; he undertook research in bacteriology, the metablism of the body in cancer, histology, the formation of scar tissue. He was appointed by the Royal Society a member of the commission to study Asiatic Cholera in Spain in 1886 and was a member of the Society's Malaria and Sleeping Sickness Commission. He served on a number of government committees including those on the lighting of factories, tetanus, alcohol, industrial fatigue, foot and mouth disease. He was awarded his

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