Quotes About Neuroscience

The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in the universe. So ultimately I knew if I was going to handle this in a fictional format, I would have to take a subsection of neuroscience, and that turned out to be the use of neuroscience in criminal courts.

Trauma can warp the brain.

To some extent, raw emotions arise from a part of the brain without words.

For me, thinking typically meant speaking in an internal voice; as we say in the trade, my thoughts were phonologically coded.

If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.

transcranial magnetic stimulation

akinetic mutism,

Is it better for Marco to have his brain chemistry altered than for Ana to alter hers?

When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

The body and dendrites of a nerve cell are specialized for the reception and integration of information which is conveyed as impulses that are fired from other nerve cells along their axons.

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless.

Clarity of mind (Cm) is affected by any number of factors, but by far the most important is horniness, which might be designated by ?, for obvious anatomical reasons that Waterhouse finds amusing at this stage of his emotional development.

They can't tell what she's thinking. But they can tell that something's going on in her brain, that she's using parts of her brain right now that she didn't use when they were asking the nonsense questions.

He can control these people by grafting radio receivers into their skulls, broadcasting instructions—me—directly into their brainstems.

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

On this scale, the human brain is 7.5 times bigger than the brain of a typical mammal weighing as much as we do, with all other mammals having smaller encephalization quotients. Why the size of say, the prefrontal cortex, should relate to the size

Given that you make more than 100,000 daily saccades, each one lasting between 20 and 100 milliseconds, saccadic and blink suppression adds up to more than an hour a day during which you are effectively blind! Yet until scientists started studying eye movements, no one was aware of this remarkable fact.

We might even have to hunt for the NCC down at the subcellular level, seeking mechanisms operating inside cells rather than across large neural coalitions, as is widely assumed. Indeed, some have hypothesized, as a possible NCC, all-or-none electrical events occurring in the dendritic tree of cortical neurons, a sort of handshake confirming that a bottom-up signal has encountered top-down feedback within a certain time window.