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	John Carew Eccles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903–May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.
		When Eccles passed a current into the sensory neuron in the quadriceps, the motor neuron innervating the quadricep produced a small excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP).
		Bernard Katz and Eccles worked together on some of the experiments which elucidated the role of acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Carew_Eccles (544 words)

	AAS-Biographical memoirs-Eccles
		John Carew Eccles was born on 27 January 1903 at Northcote, a suburb of Melbourne.
		Eccles was deeply impressed by Popper's main tenet, that scientific hypotheses should be both clearly formulated and testable by experiment, and that the strength of a hypothesis depended on the failure of rigorous investigation to falsify it rather than on evidence which apparently supported it.
		Eccles was awarded a Royal Medal in 1962, and the award in 1963 of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with A.L.Hodgkin and A.F.Huxley, recognized his fundamental contributions to the ionic mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the brain.
	www.science.org.au /academy/memoirs/eccles.htm (16136 words)

	Ockhams Razor - 2/3/2003: Centenary of Sir John Eccles
		John Eccles would have been 100 on January 27th, and there will be quite a few programs on Radio National giving a detailed account of his extraordinary contribution to research and ideas.
		Eccles did not last much longer either, thanks to deteriorating relations with the Board and some of the clinicians at Sydney Hospital, who simply did not understand the significance of the work being done at the Kanematsu and whose own egos found Eccles overbearing.
		Eccles supported an electrical explanation which required the inhibited nerve cell’s voltage still to depolarise, that is to become less negative and move towards zero.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s792556.htm (1721 words)

	John Eccles on mind and brain
		Eccles feels that this 'impoverished and empty' theory fails to account for 'the wonder and mystery of the human self with its spiritual values, with its creativity, and with its uniqueness for each of us' [2].
		Eccles calls the fundamental neural units of the cerebral cortex dendrons, and proposes that each of the 40 million dendrons is linked with a mental unit, or pychon, representing a unitary conscious experience.
		Eccles is in basic agreement with the neo-Darwinian theory that evolution is driven by random genetic mutations followed by the weeding out of unfavorable variations by natural selection, but he also believes that 'there is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialist happenings of biological evolution' [10].
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/eccles.htm (2631 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Carew Eccles
		Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London, England, UK) is a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the...
		Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (February 5, 1914 â€“ December 20, 1998) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Andrew Fielding Huxley on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism...
		How the Self Controls Its Brain is a book by Sir John Eccles, proposing a theory of philosophical dualism, and offering a justification of how there can be mind-brain action without violating the principle of the conservation of energy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Carew-Eccles (1732 words)

	Mind - Chapter Six
		Eccles, now retired, is considered by many of his peers to be among the world's leading neurophysiologists, and recognition of his stature came in due time when he was made Nobel laureate.
		Eccles is clearly much more committed to the view that the mind or "soul" (as he now calls it) has a destiny beyond the grave for which this present life is strictly preparation.
		Eccles admits that it is not yet possible to give a scientific account of the nature of this bridge, but holds that Kornhuber's experiments are presumptive experimental evidence that action can indeed be initiated by the will without the introduction of external stimuli in the chain of events leading from one to the other.
	www.custance.org /Library/MIND/chapter6.html (3755 words)

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		Eccles, drawing on his present collaborative work with the philosopher Karl Popper skows circumstantially not only the intimate connections between consciousness and specific areas of the cerebral cortex but also the unbridgeable gulf between the unique consciousness of self -- what has here been referred to as "I" -- and neurophysiological activity.
		Eccles is also a member of the Pontifical Academy of Science for which in 1964 he organized a symposium on "Conscious Experience;" these papers have since been published.
		Eccles, on the other hand, is, I believe, primarily concerned with meta-consciousness, the ability of a brain mechanism to focus attention on its own processing.
	itest.slu.edu /dloads/70s/fabman3/fabman3.txt (21727 words)

	RSNZ/Academy Yearbook 1999/John Eccles
		Eccles was proud of the fact that "the majority of the senior faculty of the newly founded Medical School at Auckland University" had been his students.
		Eccles was still full of energy and ideas, but he faced the problem of a compulsory retirement age of 65, and realised that the research facilities which he required would not be available to him after 1968.
		Eccles was appointed to a Distinguished Professorship in Physiology and Biophysics.
	www.rsnz.org /directory/yearbooks/year99/eccles.php (2073 words)

	ANU - The John Curtin School of Medical Research - JCSMR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sir John Eccles (1903-1997), Foundation Professor of Physiology in the John Curtin School (1951-1966), shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for his fundamental contributions to the ionic mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the brain, based on research carried out in the School.
		Eccles was a member of Sherrington's team investigating spinal reflexes, and also became involved in studying synaptic transmission in the heart and sympathetic ganglia.
		Faced with retirement in 1968, Eccles moved to the United States in 1966, initially to Chicago and from 1968-1975 to Buffalo as Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the State University of New York.
	jcsmr.anu.edu.au /hon_roll/eccles.htm (491 words)

	"John Eccles on Mind and Brain" by David Pratt
		However, Eccles denies that the mind is a type of nonphysical substance (as it is in Cartesian dualism), and says that it merely belongs to a different world.
		Eccles is in basic agreement with the neo-Darwinian theory that evolution is driven by random genetic mutations followed by the weeding out of unfavorable variations by natural selection, but he also believes that "there is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialist happenings of biological evolution." (Ibid., p.
		Eccles rejects panpsychism on the grounds that modern physics does not admit memory or identity for elementary particles.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/science/prat-bra.htm (2445 words)

	Science Show - 02/08/2003: Sir John Eccles
		John Eccles: (Reading) The security of our academic life lasted until Japan entered the War, then for two years I was deeply involved in various war time projects and the Kanematsu became the Australian Centre for Blood Serum Preparation and for applied research on acoustic problems.
		John Eccles: (Reading) Troubling me in my later years at Canberra was the early retirement age of 65 that was soon to overtake me. I had hoped to get this age extended to 68 but the administrators prevented this.
		John Eccles: (Reading) As this seven year period came to an end with my voluntary retirement in 1975 at the age of 72, it was with great sadness that my wife and I said farewell.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s911380.htm (5907 words)

	Australian of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Eccles returned to Sydney in 1937 but, discouraged by the lack of opportunity he saw in Australia, spent 1943 - 51 in New Zealand.
		Eccles shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his pioneering work on the chemical means by which signals are transmitted by nerve cells.
		Eccles has written numerous scientific works on the relationship between science, religion and philosophy.
	www.australianoftheyear.gov.au /recipient.asp?pID=4 (189 words)

	JOHN CAREW ECCLES FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Sir John Carew Eccles (January_27, 1903–May_2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine for his work on the synapse.
		When Eccles passed a current into the sensory neuron in the quadriceps, the motor neuron innervating the quadricep produced a small excitatory_postsynaptic_potential (EPSP).
		Until around 1949, Eccles believed that synaptic_transmission was primarily electrical rather than chemical.
	www.bellabuds.com /John_Carew_Eccles (445 words)

	NASA Neurolab Web: Mission Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sir John Carew Eccles, the Australian research physiologist, was born in 1903 in Melbourne.
		In 1963 he received (with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical means by which impulses are communicated or repressed by nerve cells.
		Eccles' work, based largely on the findings of Hodgkin and Huxley, had a profound influence on the medical treatment of nervous diseases and research on kidney, heart, and brain function.
	neurolab.jsc.nasa.gov /eccles.htm (243 words)

	Sir John Eccles - Biography
		In 1937 Eccles left England for Australia to become Director of a small medical research unit in Sydney, where he was fortunate to have the distinguished collaboration of Bernard Katz and Stephen Kuffler.
		In 1955 this stage of the investigation was described in the Herter Lectures of Johns Hopkins University, and was published in 1957 as The Physiology of Nerve Cells.
		In 1928 John Carew Eccles married Irene Frances Miller of Motueka, New Zealand, and there are nine children; four sons and five daughters, of whom the two eldest sons are scientists with Ph.
	nobelprize.org /medicine/laureates/1963/eccles-bio.html (1078 words)

	Apologetics Press - The Origin of Consciousness [Part II]
		Eccles and Sperry discuss their research, documenting that the mind exerts a significant influence on the brain, Cousins was constrained to say that when we see evidence such as that produced by the scientific research of Nobel laureates like Sperry and Eccles, which shows
		Eccles, until his death in 1997 at the age of 94, was one of the world’s most eminent electrophysiologists.
		Eccles is the one who showed that the mental acts of intention initiate the burst of discharges in a nerve’s brain cell.
	www.apologeticspress.org /rr/rr2004/r&r0405a.htm (14728 words)

	Adeus. Sir Eccles
		Eccles começou sua vida científica em Melbourne, Austrália, ainda como estudante de medicina aos 18 anos de idade.
		John Eccles, um dos primeiros proponentes da hipótese elétrica, descreveu os experimentos de gravações intracelulares que o persuadiram, em 1951, a abandonar a hipótese elétrica em favor da hipótese química.
		Eccles obtém o sucesso, mesmo ao refutar cientificamente sua própria idéia anterior, triunfa ao invés de assumir como fracasso o fato de ter trabalhado com uma hipótese equivocada.
	www.cerebromente.org.br /n03/opiniao/eccles.htm (453 words)

	How the Self Controls Its Brain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		How the Self Controls Its Brain is a book by Sir John Eccles proposing a theory of philosophical dualism and offering a justification of how can be mind-brain action without violating the of the conservation of energy.
		Eccles calls the fundamental neural units of cerebral cortex "dendrons" and proposes that each of 40 million dendrons is linked with a unit or "psychon" representing a unitary conscious experience.
		This book is a unique example of a scientific trying to go further of the materialistic approach that prevails in the scientific community.After the book he wrote with Karl Popper (The brain and its mind) sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize in the 60's, wrote th...
	www.freeglossary.com /How_the_Self_Controls_Its_Brain (147 words)

	John Carew Eccles, Sir Biography / Biography of John Carew Eccles, Sir Biography Biography
		The Australian neurophysiologist Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) made a series of original contributions to the knowledge of how nerve cells communicate with each other.
		John Carew Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia, on January 27, 1903, the first of two children of two teachers.
		Eccles carried on and developed further his teacher's scientific and philosophical ideas.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-carew-eccles-sir/index.html (255 words)

	Sir John Eccles, in memoriam, a tireless warrior for dualism - Biersack, Hans J.; Eccles, Helena - frauenbuch.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sir John Eccles, in memoriam, a tireless warrior for dualism - Biersack, Hans J.; Eccles, Helena - frauenbuch.de
		Sir John Eccles, in memoriam, a tireless warrior for dualism
		They also tell the human side of the story: how hard the beginnings were, how impressing and stimulating the personality of Sir John was, how much he has influenced and encouraged them in their ongoing scientific work.
	www.frauenbuch.de /htm/fb630025.htm (186 words)

	How the Self Controls Its Brain
		While rejecting Descartes' mind/body dualism, Eccles proposes one of his own, based on the physical and objective aspects of the brain.
		In attempting to prove his argument, Eccles provides a literature review followed by a discussion of the neurological functions of the brain.
		A psychon is the elemental unit for a given mental event, which Eccles defines as intention to act.
	www.banned-books.com /truth-seeker/1995archive/122_1/ts221n.html (590 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sir John Suckling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642), English poet, who was one of the Cavalier poets.
		He was born in Whitton (now in Greater London) and educated at the...
		Critics group English poet Sir John Suckling with the Cavalier poets, a group of 17th-century lyric poets associated with the English King Charles...
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eccles Sir John Carew
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eccles Sir John Carew
		Eccles, Sir John Carew (1903-1997), Australian physiologist and Nobel laureate, noted for his studies in neurophysiology.
		Ross, Sir John (1777-1856), British explorer of the Arctic, who led expeditions in 1818 and 1829 in search of the Northwest Passage.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Eccles_Sir_John_Carew.html (103 words)

	magdalen > history > nobel laureates > sir john eccles
		Sir John Carew Eccles was born in January 1903 and attended Melbourne University, coming to Magdalen as a Rhodes Scholar in 1925.
		He received a doctorate in 1929 and was Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen between 1934 and 1937.
		He received his Nobel Prize in 1963 and was an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen from 1964.
	www.magd.ox.ac.uk /history/nobel_eccles.shtml (146 words)

	How Much Brain Do We Actually Use?
		Sir John Eccles has stated his feelings on the infinite potential of the human brain, and he won the Noble prize.
		Such a statement that "We use all of our brain all of the time" or "It is a myth that we only use 10% of our brain" are both misleading and unhelpful uninspiring skeptical crumbs with barely a grain of truth- As well as not even being accurate statements regarding usage of the human brain.
		Hence, the wisdom of intuitive folksay was correct: "The human brain is only 10% functional." John Eccles thinks that number is too high.
	www.neilslade.com /Papers/how.html (821 words)

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