Quotes About Neuroscience

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

Indeed, says psychologist Dan Stern of the University of Geneva, the brain is so relational that our nervous system is actually "constructed to be captured by the nervous systems of others, so that we can experience others as if from within their skin, as well as from within our own.

Simply holding the hand of a loving partner can affect us profoundly, literally calming jittery neurons in the brain.

Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.

Social neuroscientists now believe that the need to belong trumps the need for safety.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

may have resulted from abnormal wiring in the serotonergic system of his brain. Other

It is all too apparent: wounds never heal, but rather, in a torpid state deep inside the medial temporal lobe of the brain, grief waits for fresh release.

It seems that the parietal lobes of the brain have the function of creating a sense of time and space, and when that part of the brain goes offline, we lose our sense of there being an inside and an outside to our experience.

It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle these ailments together, that is the work that is in front of us: to have a map of the human brain, an understanding of the roadways, and an understanding of the traffic on the roadways.

The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the L.A. freeways. But, thankfully, we live in an era in which neuroscientists are teaching us about the malleability of our brain and the emotionally contagious nature of our workplaces.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: Why Addiction is a Learning Disorder and What to Do About It; neuroscience

?Everything that makes you, you, is a biologically existential expression of your entire brain.

It's a left-brain right-brain thing. People are more agreeable toward people on their left.

In the brain, there's a similar system called the glia-lymphatic system (really glymphatic but let's use glia-lymphatic as we think it describes the system better).2 But often we don't have optimal ability to clear waste from that area. Not surprisingly, this circumstance is largely related to the food we eat, how much exercise we get, and other lifestyle choices we make, especially regarding sleep.

The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.