Richard Bergland: Brain

Richard Bergland is neuroscientist. Explore interesting quotes on brain.
Richard Bergland: 38 quotes0 likes

“Physicians and scientists will measure brain hormones—in ventricular fluid and elsewhere—will link these to specific diseases, and will devise space-age techniques to restock the mind's hormonal pantries. The only question is, When?'”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

“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.”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

“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.”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)