Author: Boris Sidis

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781333605254

Excerpt from The Source and Aim of Human Progress Ingoing and outgoing nerve currents with their various end reactions may be modified by the nerve centers. Nerve currents may be intensified, decreased in energy, or even entirely inhibited by central ganglia or by their mutual interaction and interferences. Sherrington and other physiologists have by a number of experiments formulated some of the important principles of such physiological activities. The law of inhibition or interference early formulated by Ziehen may suffice: If an excitation of a definite intensity (m) take place in one cortical element (b), and another excitation of a different intensity take place at the same time in another cortical element (c) which is connected by a path of conduction with element (b), the' two intensi ties of excitation may modify each other. Although such modifications frequently occur, it nevertheless remains true that the inferior nerve-centers are of a re ex nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."