Lord Adrian, MD, PRS, OM.

Authors :: Pearce JMS
Source :: European neurology [Eur Neurol] 2018; Vol. 79 (1-2), pp. 64-67. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Dec 14.
Publication Year :: 2018
Abstract: Edgar Douglas Adrian was an outstandingly brilliant, Nobel prize-winning neurophysiologist. He is remembered for developing the all-or-none principle of muscle contraction, and for explaining the minutiae of motor and sensory nerve transmission. He showed that the afferent effect in a neuron depends on the pattern in time of the impulses travelling in it, thereby providing a quantitative basis of nervous behaviour. With Sir Charles Sherrington, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 for discoveries on the functions of the neurons.<br /> (© 2017 S. Karger AG, Basel.)