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“When information comes in through your sense organs, it’s directed to the thalamus, which is like the Grand Central Station of the brain”

— Catherine M. Pittman

“Conscious parts of the brain train other parts of the neural machinery, establishing the goals and allocating the resources.”

— David Eagleman

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

— Stephen King

It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in…

— John Ratey

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

— Richard Restak

(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“consciousness has a precise role to play in the computational economy of the brain—it selects, amplifies, and propagates relevant thoughts.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

— David Eagleman

“Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve…

— David Abram

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

— Robert Barany

“Specifically, a web of neurons—dubbed the “default network”—spanning three brain regions (the medial prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate cortex, and the parietal cortex) are…

— David DiSalvo

“Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.”

— Richard Powers