Quotes About Neuroscience

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

the brain produced

Any significant input that is received in your brain triggers neural activity that cannot simply be erased or deleted as though it never happened.

To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

More studies followed. In 2005 Fredrik Ullen scanned the brains of concert pianists and found a directly proportional relationship between hours of practice and white matter. In 2000 Torkel Klingberg linked reading skill to white matter increases, and in 2006 Jesus Pujol did the same for vocabulary development.

It's also why we've recently seen an avalanche of new studies, books, and video games built on the myelin-centric principle that practice staves off cognitive decline.

There is, biologically speaking, no substitute for attentive repetition. Nothing you can do—talking, thinking, reading, imagining—is more effective in building skill than executing the action, firing the impulse down the nerve fiber, fixing errors, honing the circuit.

Skill is myelin insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows according to certain signals.

We are myelin beings," Bartzokis says finally. "It's the way we're built. You can't avoid it.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

people act badly, it is easy to just call them negative or derogatory names. But once you look at their scans and realize they might have a damaged or toxic scan, it gives you more understanding and empathy.

In a study from researchers at UCLA, the hippocampus and frontal cortex were found to be significantly larger in people who meditate regularly. Meditation has also been found to aid in weight loss, reduce muscle tension, and tighten the skin. Many people

Evolve the Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

At Amen Clinics, we published a study on nearly a thousand pot smokers compared to nonusers. As a group, the pot smokers showed lower blood flow in every area of the brain, especially the hippocampus (mood and memory).[16] This is clear evidence that getting stoned can cause lasting damage.

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

it's been estimated that the brain has the storage capacity of three million hours of TV shows (7).

The frontal lobe is the recent addition to the human brain that allows us to imagine the future.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy. … They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

if we watch how people's brains respond, promising them monetary rewards and giving them cocaine, nicotine, or amphetamines look disturbingly similar.

Cognitive neuroscientists at Drexel and Northwestern universities have found that the flashes of insight that precede "Aha!" moments are accompanied by a large burst of neural activity in the brain's right hemisphere

Since roughly 90 percent of the population is right-handed, that means that in roughly 90 percent of the population, the left hemisphere is controlling important movements such as handwriting, eating, and maneuvering a computer mouse.

T]he left hemisphere [is] particularly good at recognizing serial events—events whose elements occur one after the other—and controlling sequences of behavior. The left hemisphere is also involved in controlling serial behaviors. The serial functions performed by the left hemisphere include verbal activities, such as talking, understanding the speech of other people, reading, and writing.

right hemisphere is responsible for our ability to comprehend metaphors

In general the left hemisphere participates in the analysis of information," says a neuroscience primer. "In contrast, the right hemisphere is specialized for synthesis; it is particularly good at putting isolated elements together to perceive things as a whole.