Quotes About Neuroscience

prefrontally mediated, in which we attribute these shifts to what we've seen in the other person. Naturally, such a complex pathway can be bogged down by rigid valenced plateaus of probability, which skew accurate interpretations of the meaning of sensations.

La mente en desarrollo: cómo interactúan las relaciones y el cerebro para modelar nuestro ser. Va

When that trait is an integrated mind, this means that we can move from automatic reactivity without choice to the freedom of responsiveness with choice.

And for those with an enlarged amygdala, which is involved in excessive emotional reactivity, mind training leads to a decrease in this overly differentiated neural node of our emotional life.

Some estimate the number of firing patterns of the brain—on/off profiles of total brain activation that are possible—to be ten times ten one million times, or ten to the millionth power. The human brain is thought to be the most complex thing in the universe, artificial or natural.

las experiencias que proporciones en el contexto de la relación con tu hijo moldearán literalmente la estructura física de su cerebro.

more directly influenced by the body and lower brain areas,

Daniel J. Siegel

Mindsight and The Developing Mind,

We can likely grow those soothing fibers that extend from the prefrontal upstairs brain into the downstairs brain.

merely assigning a name or label to what we feel literally calms down the activity of the emotional circuitry in the right hemisphere.

naming an affect soothes limbic firing. Sometimes we need to "name it to tame it." We can use the left language centers to calm the excessively firing right emotional areas.

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Given that the limbic area shapes how we appraise the meaning of events, knowing the hand model and seeing the limbic area's distinct location from the higher areas of the cortex can help us realize that sometimes a "feeling" is indeed not a fact.

La amígdala, que tiene forma de almendra, desempeña un papel importante en la respuesta de miedo.

hipocampo, un grupo de neuronas con forma de caballito de mar que realiza una importante función de «ensamblaje» conectando áreas del cerebro muy separadas, que van desde las regiones dedicadas a la percepción hasta la memoria y los centros del lenguaje.

The nervous system consumes more glucose than most other parts of the body, and effortful mental activity appears to be especially expensive in the currency of glucose.

Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.

Neuroscientists discovered that humans have brain cells called mirror neurons that cause them to mimic others, and when people are in a heightened state of emotion, a soothing voice can calm their nervous systems and help them stay present.

Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" Christmas.

To establish a bridge of attunement, we rely on many neural systems that receive and send social and emotional information. We use all of this information to create theories about what is on the minds of others.

what other published works often ignore: the critical role played by the limbic system