Quotes About Neuroscience

Words are processed by our short-term memory where we can only retain about seven bits of information . . . Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.

Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart—the part of the brain represented by the heart—that was the mystery.

It is no exaggeration to say that genes are essential to nearly every aspect of memory and the process of learning; without them, learning itself would not exist.

Thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams exist on Earth because of electrical activity inside a 1.5-kilogram blob of stuff, which hasn't changed much since the earliest modern humans began the long journey out of Africa

memory is what the brain does, how it composes us and allows our past to help determine our future. In no small part memory makes us who we are

Connectedness regulates and rewards us.

The fact that the brain develops sequentially—and also so rapidly in the first years of life—explains why extremely young children are at such great risk of suffering lasting effects of trauma: their brains are still developing. The same miraculous plasticity that allows young brains to quickly learn love and language, unfortunately, also makes them highly susceptible to negative experiences as well.

To create an effective "memory" and increase strength, experience has to be patterned and repetitive.

She had sleep and attention problems (brainstem), difficulties with fine motor control and coordination (diencephalon and cortex), clear social and relational delays and deficits (limbic and cortex), and speech and language problems

The Neurosequential Model allows us to create a version of how the individual's brain appears to be organized; it is basically like an inspection of a house.

Childhood experiences literally impact the biology of the brain.

BrainFacts.Org: This is the most reliable, accurate, and accessible resource for anyone interested in the brain. It is a public information initiative that is a collaboration between the Society for Neuroscience, the Kavli Foundation, and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

THE NEUROSEQUENTIAL MODEL AND THE WORK OF DR. PERRY: The Neurosequential Network (Neurosequential.com): This site outlines the research, clinical programs, and other educational activities of the Neurosequential Network

The developmental process is very front-loaded, meaning that the majority of brain growth and organization takes place in the first years of life. Now, this doesn't mean that the brain won't change after early childhood, but early life experiences do have a very powerful impact on how we develop.

And since the brain is the part of us that allows us to think, feel, and act, whenever I'm trying to understand someone, I wonder about that person's brain. Why did they do that? What would make them act that way? Something happened that influenced how their brain works.

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patterned, repetitive experience in a safe environment can have an enormous impact on the brain

Patterned, repetitive stimuli lead to tolerance, while chaotic, infrequent signals produce sensitization.

major part of our worldview are mediated by our cortex.

You could say that racism is embedded in the top, "rational" part of your brain, whereas implicit bias involves the distorting "filters" created in lower parts of the brain.

caminar de manera coordinada responde a un mesencéfalo y un tronco encefálico bien regulados, regiones cruciales para la coordinación de la respuesta al estrés.

La memoria es la capacidad de seguir adelante arrastrando ciertos aspectos de la experiencia. Incluso los músculos tienen memoria, algo que puede apreciarse con los cambios que se producen en ellos como resultado del ejercicio. No obstante, y más importante aún, la memoria es lo que el cerebro hace, el modo en que nos forma, y permite que nuestro pasado ayude a determinar nuestro futuro. En gran medida, el cerebro nos convierte en quienes somos(...).

thinking" part of the brain, the lower brain has already interpreted and responded to it. It's matched the sensory input from the new experience against the catalog of stored memories of past experiences—before the smart part of your brain even has a chance to get involved.

Dr. Perry: It has the same effect. And other children will discover that pulling out their hair or their eyebrows gives a little bit of an opiate burst.