“Blocking inositol triphosphate stops the wave. Inositol triphosphate receptor activation by calcium can desensitize the receptors. Inositol triphosphate is more sensitive to their receptors, but it is also less reactive than calcium and can act over many areas of the… — 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
