Brain Quote by Jeremy Bernstein

Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells…

— Deepak Chopra

There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it…

— Meg Rosoff

Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the primary cell…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain…

— Mary-Frances O'Connor

“Somwhere across town she was standing at a sink or walking into a closet, his name stowed somewhere in the pleated neurons of her…

— Anthony Doerr

“...he'd know about the role of mirror neurons in the brain, special cells in the premotor cortex that fire right before a person reaches…

— Diane Ackerman

The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.

— Gerald Fischbach

“the neuron bundle comes from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth or skin. The key difference lies not in the neurons that carry this information,…

— Max Tegmark

Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy…

— Patricia Churchland

“most expensive in the body, second only to the heart. Neurons may be small, but they’re costly to make and maintain, consuming about ten…

— Jennifer Ackerman

Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that…

— Carl Zimmer