Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz Quotes

There is an adage in neuroscience that circuits that wire together fire together. By engaging the brain and spinal cord together, we may be able to enhancce teh growth of [brain] circuits during rehabilitation.

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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.

The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

I'm actually pretty scientifically interested. I have a lot of friends who are doctors, so the idea of the virus and the synapses in the brain and how the nervous system works was actually all pretty familiar to me.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.