Neurons Quotes
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Tags: Brain, Single, Stars ✍ Author: Lawrence EagleburgerYour brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.
Tags: Brain, Cells, City ✍ Author: Lawrence EagleburgerSpace and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.
Tags: Brain, Time, Together ✍ Author: Robert LanzaSynaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.
Tags: Fired, Technical, Used ✍ Author: Gregory BatesonI think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
Tags: Brain, Trying, Work ✍ Author: A. S. Byatt