Quotes About Neuroscience

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.

I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.

I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.

Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.

IN Incognito the neuroscientist David Eagleman proposes that we are unknown to ourselves: Most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand. Research in neuroscience and cognitive science shows that people remember and respond most effectively to what they see and experience: "Seeing is believing." In the realm of experience, positive stimuli reinforce behavior, whereas negative stimuli change attitudes and behavior. Simply

thank the Society for Neuroscience and the Editor of The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography for the invitation to share with neuroscientific colleagues,

Kettner and lesion work by David Lavond that the cerebellum was involved in eyeblink conditioning, but the cerebellar lesion

medicine. Accounts of scientific lives in neuroscience hold the promise of being informative and interesting, and they could be a source of inspiration

Unfortunately, the two hemispheres of our brain have become separated and no longer function as a holistic gestalt.

As an eminent neuroscientist, Damasio is as qualified as anyone to define the brain, and he calls it an "'organ' of information and government.

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

The U.S. and Europe may have more breakthroughs in neuroscience, but you have to put that in perspective. The U.S. has 350 million people, and there are 28 countries in the European Union. Israel is third behind these countries in its neuroscience developments, but per capita, it is way ahead of everyone.

We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.