Sherrington’s law

Sherrington's law, also known as reciprocal innervation, is a physiological principle demonstrated by Sir Charles Sherrington. It states that when a set of muscles is stimulated to contract, the opposing set of muscles is simultaneously inhibited. This concept challenged the prevailing idea of isolated "reflex arcs," proposing instead that reflexes are integrated activities of the entire organism. Sherrington's work, including his distinction of exteroceptive, interoceptive, and proprioceptive sense organs, laid the groundwork for understanding integrated nervous function and influenced fields like neurosurgery and the treatment of nervous disorders. He also coined the term "synapse".1