Neurotransmitters Quote by Robert J. Sawyer

“Knowledge emerged about synapses, neurotransmitter-ology was born, and this idea was modified—a new memory requires the formation of a new synapse, a new connection…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion of this…

— Ian McEwan

“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

“a parable “teases the mind into active thought.”

— James Martin

“Sometimes the dendrites leading into the nonsensory neuron are so plentiful that, under a microscope, they look very much like a richly branched coral,…

— Wendy Williams

“Meanwhile, the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) arises from different midbrain/brain-stem nuclei that project down the spine to the body. In contrast to the SNS…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed.…

— Carl Hart

“Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the work of…

— Henry Hallett Dale

“may have resulted from abnormal wiring in the serotonergic system of his brain. Other”

— Fitzgerald Matt

“The thalamus is thus a critical interface between information travelling from the cortex to the motor centres, and from the senses back to the…

— Mark Plumb

“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

Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as…

— William Feindel