“4 Meet the astrocyte If you look at a tulip, you wouldn’t think it was an armadillo. Similarly, looking at a neuron, you wouldn’t think it was glia. But you might look at a whale and think it’s a fish,… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“When looking at the brains of injured patients, Paul Broca (1824–1880) discovered that the left temporal cortex was responsible for speech. When Penfield electrically… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“Little is known about the physiological properties of glial cells in the vertebrate central nervous system.” In fact, in 1966, absolutely” — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“If the skeptics are correct, then the astrocyte might prove to be responsible at the learning level.” — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“midline. The back of the brain is the visual cortex. The parietal cortex between the sensory and visual cortex stores motor memories for playing… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“The leech is more developed than the flatworm, with one glial cell for every 30 neurons, and the glial cells occupying 51 percent of… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“nothing was known about glial cells, the most abundant cell in the brain by a large magnitude.” — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“percent of the rodent brain and 90 percent of the human brain. The ratio of cell number of astrocytes in the cortex increases as… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“Glia are not glue or inconsequential space; it is now turning out to be the exact opposite. Rodin’s thinker was certainly using his” — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“Glial cells include Schwann cells, Müller cells, epithelial cells, ependymal cells, oligodendricytes, tanycytes, microglia, and astrocytes—all function as differently from each other as they… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“astrocytes, and Myron’s discus thrower was using his neurons. For the astrocyte to be the root of thought, it must be able to process… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“When someone is told to speak, the area of the left temporal cortex is flushed with blood. Knowing that astrocytes, not neurons, have their… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“4 Meet the astrocyte If you look at a tulip, you wouldn’t think it was an armadillo. Similarly, looking at a neuron, you wouldn’t… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
