Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE PRS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist histologist bacteriologist and a pathologist Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. Sherrington received the prize for showing that reflexes require integrated activation and demonstrated reciprocal innervation of muscles (Sherrington's Law). Prior to the work of Sherrington and Adrian it was widely accepted that reflexes occurred as isolated activity within a reflex arc.