Richard Bergland: Brain

“The hormonal genies that have lived unnoticed in the brain since humankind began have escaped; there is no way that they can be put back.”

“The brain is a gland of unity: the brain is one with the body.”

“The greatest array of brain hormones is found in the ventricle, not in the spinal fluid.”

“The measurement of hormones in the bloodstream of patients will not reflect the endocrine activity of the brain.”

“The brain remains silently separated from the noisy endocrine consequences.”

“Those at the top in brain science gained their pedestals by knowing more and more about less and less.”

“Molecules move not only from the brain to the endocrine system but also from the endocrine system, indeed, from all parts of the body to the brain.”

“Brain/body relationships might depend upon a chorus of individual hormones... which are released together to sing hormonal harmonies to the body.”

“The existing paradigm about the brain has ceased to function adequately.”

“Not all ideas of the ideas that pass from one brain to another brain... are good ideas; some are mistakes. These I call 'mismemes.'”