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The role assigned to the nervous system in animal and human life has been defined in various terms by those authors, very small in number indeed, who strove for an understanding of the functions of the nervous system in very general and, above all, physiological rather than anatomical terms. The nervous system has been conceived by some as an organ of coordination (J. Hughlings Jackson), by others as a structure serving in orientation (C. von Monakow), and still by others as instrumental in integrative action (Sherrington). In spite of the difference of terms and concepts, one element is common to all of them. Whether we endow the nervous system with the task of relating one set of data, i.e., sensory, to another set, i.e., motor, thus providing for coordinated action becoming orientation at the conscious level, or whether we leave it to the nervous system to bring into unity of action ( integration) the countless and most diversified excitations reaching it from the surrounding, the rest of the body, and its own levels, the factor of conduction is common to all of these functional designs of the nervous system. The history of this conduction or nervous impulse reflects the history of the most fundamental stages of medicine, if not of human thought and knowledge in general, passing from metaphysics and speculation to physics, observation, and experimentation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Mar 11, 2013
Keywords: history of neurology; nervous system; nervous impulse
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