Sherrington & Adrian (1932) — Nerve-impulse function

nerves · Nobel Prize · Physiology or Medicine 1932 · 1932

Sherrington mapped reflex links between muscular movements and electric impulses; Adrian measured electric impulses in individual nerves and found that impulse strength is constant—frequency and fibre count vary instead.

Authors

Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian

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Sherrington mapped reflex links between muscular movements and electric impulses; Adrian measured electric impulses in individual nerves and found that impulse strength is constant—frequency and fibre count vary instead.

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