Items from the list of books recommended by Dr Feldenkrais for SF training, 1975
Charles Scott SHERRINGTON (1857-1952)
“Man on his Nature”, Edinburgh, The Gifford lectures, 1937-1938;
republished Cambridge University Press, 2009
A British physician and scientist, he is best known for his discovery of the function of neurons, for
which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1932 along with Edgar
Douglas Adrian. He also demonstrated the law of reciprocal innervation on the relative inhibition
phenomena of agonist and antagonist muscles, “also on the physiology of motor control”; he
coined the word synapse, and pursued research into proprioception, and postural control. He was
President of the British Royal Society from 1920 to 1925.
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