Richard Bergland quotes

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)
Genetic engineers are powerless in all of this without some cooperative effort from people working in allied fields. View quote
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The brain is a gland of unity: the brain is one with the body. View quote
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Miracles of inner healing are everyday occurrences. View quote
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The greatest array of brain hormones is found in the ventricle, not in the spinal fluid. View quote
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The measurement of hormones in the bloodstream of patients will not reflect the endocrine activity of the brain. View quote
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The brain remains silently separated from the noisy endocrine consequences. View quote
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Few would have predicted that the discovery of the circulation of the blood would have changed the way philosophers view the world, theologians conceive of God, or astronomers look at the stars, yet all of that happened. View quote
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Those at the top in brain science gained their pedestals by knowing more and more about less and less. View quote
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Every organ is a hormone-producing gland. View quote
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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)
Brain/body relationships might depend upon a chorus of individual hormones... which are released together to sing hormonal harmonies to the body. View quote
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The existing paradigm about the brain has ceased to function adequately. View quote
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Amending your own mind is very, very satisfying... amending other people's minds is a fruitless, unsatisfying effort. View quote
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Whatever the cerebellum is doing, it's doing a lot of it. View quote
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Not all ideas of the ideas that pass from one brain to another brain... are good ideas; some are mistakes. These I call 'mismemes'. View quote
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In decades to come ventricular catheterization performed to measure hormone concentrations will become as routine as the measurement of lumbar 'pressure' is today. View quote
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Twenty years from now, the disease, 'presenile dementia' will be understood as well as diabetes is today. View quote
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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?' View quote
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Neurosurgery can be learned... neurosurgery cannot be taught. View quote
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The double-think of modern science-'Molecules shape the body, but electricity shapes the mind'-ends abruptly with the realization that regulatory hormones control both brain and body functions. (Richard Bergland)
The science of neuroendocrinology-the brain-to-pituitary link that was discerned by [Joe] Hinsey, [George] Wislocki, du Vigneaud, and [Geoffrey] Harris-is dependent upon hormones flowing within nerve axons. This phenomenon, axonal flow, was first noted by Ernst and Barta Scharrer... For many decades it was assumed that axonal flow was always 'down'... away from the brain. View quote
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The neatly integrated paradigm for brain water... was derived from experiments done by Walter Dandy... Most brain scientists and brain physicians honour the Dandy paradigm as a navigator honours the North Star. ...yet new scientific evidence makes it difficult, if not impossible, to accept... It is a mismeme; the experimental facts no longer allow it to be 'true', and we need a paradigm switch. View quote
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If the question, 'Why is the heart hollow?', had a profound impact on all intellectual disciplines, would you expect any less of the question, 'Why is the brain hollow?' View quote
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The brain has all the characteristics of a gland except one-leaky capillaries-the sturdy brain capillaries are collectively called the 'blood-brain-barrier'. This barrier can easily be demonstrated by injecting a blue dye into an animal; every other organ (except the testicle) turns blue, but the blood-brain barrier keeps the brain as white as snow. View quote
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