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LONDON. Royal Society, May 5.—Prof. C. S. Sherrington, president, in the chair.—Dr. H. Head: Release of function in the nervous system (Croonian lecture). Hughlings Jackson's law that destructive lesions do not cause positive effects, but induce a negative condition, which permits positive symptoms to appear. Control of higher over lower centres. Structural lesions may remove this dominance and so reveal the activity of subordinate centres; this is “disintegration” of function. Should the stimulus become abnormally intense or central resistance be weakened, forms of reaction may break through which are normally suppressed; this is “escape from control.”
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Societies and Academies. Nature 107, 350–351 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107350a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107350a0