ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY QUOTATIONS FROM THE BOOK BOOK PUBLICATION DATA [15] CONNECTOME: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are by Sebastian Seung. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 (i-xxii, 359 pages) QUOTES FROM THE BOOK "Neurons continue to grow branches well after birth. This process is called the 'wiring' of the brain, since axons and dendrites resemble wires. Axons have to grow the most, since they are much longer than dendrites. Imagine the tiny growing tip of an axon, known as a 'growth cone' for its roughly conical shape." (page 106) "If a growth cone were expanded to human size, its travels would take it to the other side of a city. How is the growth cone able to navigate such long distances? Many neuroscientists study this phenomenon, and they've found that the growth cone acts like a dog sniffing its way home." (page 106) "The surfaces of neurons are coated with special guidance molecules that act like scents on the ground, and the interstitial spaces between neurons contain drifting guidance molecules that act like scents in the air. Growth cones are equipped with molecular sensors and can "smell" the guidance molecules to find their destination." (page 106) "The production of guidance molecules and sensors for these molecules is under genetic control." (page 106) "That's how genes guide the wiring of the brain." (page 106) INSTANTLY RETURN TO: FACT FINDER LIST OF QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: FACT FINDER LIST OF BOOKS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: DETAILS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: LIST OF 15 FREE BRAIN FLASH CARDS