Nervous system Quote by Andrew Koob

“nothing was known about glial cells, the most abundant cell in the brain by a large magnitude.”

— Andrew Koob

Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in…

— Thomas R. Insel

“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

“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

“Given the power of modern molecular techniques, it is easy to forget that the ultimate objective of physiological discoveries is to find their possible…

— Oné R. Pagán

“The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system.”

— J.G. Ballard

“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

The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most…

— H. Bentley Glass

“As David Eagleman describes it in his wonderful book Incognito: Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia—hundreds of billions of them.…

— Ray Dalio

Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they…

— Bernd Heinrich

“the fetal brain generates far more neurons than are found in the adult.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

— Floyd E. Bloom