Brainy : (8)

" To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. " - Antonio Damasio

" I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that it comes from a slightly different part of the brain, I think. " - John Lanchester

" In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies. " - Miguel Nicolelis

" I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it’s true. " - Diana Wynne Jones

" Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It’s capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition. " - Henry Markram

" A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion – several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage. " - Bennet Omalu

" Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we’re also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players. " - Ann McKee

" Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. " - Ambrose Bierce