Birdsey Renshaw

Birdsey Renshaw
Born(1911-10-10)October 10, 1911
Middletown, Connecticut
DiedNovember 23, 1948(1948-11-23) (aged 37)
Portland, Oregon
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard Medical School
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience

Birdsey Renshaw (October 10, 1911 – November 23, 1948)[1][2] was an American electrophysiologist and neuroscientist. He is known for his 1941 discovery of the eponymous Renshaw cells[3][4] and the Renshaw inhibition (recurrent inhibition), which is a negative feedback mechanism associated with the Renshaw cell action.[5][6][7][8][9]

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  3. ^ Brown, A. G. (6 December 2012). "Feedback Inhibition in the Monosynaptic Reflex Pathay". Nerve Cells and Nervous Systems: An Introduction to Neuroscience. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4471-0237-3.
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  5. ^ Perrot-Deseilligay, Emmanuel; Burke, David (8 June 2005). "Recurrent Inhibition". The Circuitry of the Human Spinal Cord: Its Role in Motor Control and Movement Disorders. Cambridge University Press. pp. 151–196. ISBN 978-0-521-82581-8.
  6. ^ Enoka, Roger M. (2008). "Recurrent Inhibition". Neuromechanics of Human Movement. Human Kinetics. pp. 264–265. ISBN 978-0-7360-6679-2.
  7. ^ Thilmann, A. F.; Burke, D. J.; Rymer, W. Z., eds. (6 December 2012). "Recurrent (Renshaw) Inhibition by P. J. Delwaide". Spasticity: Mechanisms and Management. Springer. p. 301. ISBN 978-3-642-78367-8.
  8. ^ Reuter, Peter, ed. (2004). "Renshaw". Springer Lexikon Medizin (in German). Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer: 1839. ISBN 978-3-540-20412-1.
  9. ^ Schmiedebach, Heinz–Peter (2004). "Renshaw, Birdsey". In Gerabek, Werner E.; Haage, Bernhard D; Keil, Gundolf; Wegner, Wolfgang (eds.). Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte (in German). Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter. p. 1238. doi:10.1515/9783110976946. ISBN 978-3-11-097694-6.