Thomas Laycock and the cerebral reflex: a function arising from and pointing to the unity of Nature (original) (raw)

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Thomas Laycock and the cerebral reflex: a function arising from and pointing to the unity of Nature

History of Psychiatry, 1991

Alex Leff

Abstract

Thomas Laycock has been credited as being the first to apply the concept of reflex action to the brain, and to apply the theory of evolution of the development of the nervous centres in the animal kingdom to man. Even though Laycock was writing about these ideas fifteen years before ...

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