The Root of Thought: Unlocking Glia—The Brain Cell That Will Help Us Sharpen Our Wits, Heal Injury, and Treat Brain Disease

Acknowledgments

This book materialized from four places. The first one was a lecture by Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla for Dr. Paul Collodi’s neuroscience seminar at Purdue University in the Fall of 2002. It opened all of our eyes.

Then, after sharing glial cell research ideas and lamenting the impossibility of glial cell research funding with fellow graduate student Peter Cormie over beers at Harry’s Chocolate shop on a random Tuesday afternoon while trying to avoid lab work, and more specifically the torture of rats, Pete said something when we were walking out of the bar after we had about five Guinness while listening to the entire Appetite for Destruction CD on the jukebox, “What if glial cells hold all the information in the brain?” And we ...