A Molecule Away from Madness Quotes

“Molecule is a daunting word that turns out to have a simple meaning: a molecule is a group of atoms bound together. You are probably already familiar with atoms, like oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen. When atoms are linked together, we call the resulting structure a molecule.”
― Sara Manning Peskin, A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

“The syndrome acquired the name Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after Jakob incorrectly gave credit to a fellow German scientist, Hans Creutzfeldt, who Jakob felt had described a similar case a few years earlier. Creutzfeldt’s case turned out to be a different disease—and the pairing ended up being particularly unfortunate, since Jakob was Jewish and Creutzfeldt likely had ties to the Nazi regime—but the name stuck.”
― Sara Manning Peskin, A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

“PCP intoxicates by causing the limbic system, which processes emotions, to function independently from perceptions of the outside world.”
― Sara Manning Peskin, A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain