Quotes About Neuroscience

Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger.

In fact our brains respond so similarly to rejection and physical pain that Tylenol reduces the emotional pain rejection elicits.

Taking thoughts captive and being transformed by thinking new ways isn't some New Age form of mind control. It's biblical and it's fitting with how God wired our brains.

Dr. Kent Kiehl, neuroscientist and author of The Psychopath Whisperer, a man who's dedicated his life's work to clinical brain imaging in order to understand mental illness, especially criminal psychopathy, says, "The best current estimate is that just less than one percent of all noninstitutionalized males age eighteen and over are psychopaths.

Damasio and Bechara developed their 'Somatic Marker Hypothesis'. According to this hypothesis, each event we store in memory comes bookmarked with the bodily sensations – Damasio and Bechara call these 'somatic markers' – we felt at the time of living through it for the first time; and these help us decide what to do when we find ourselves in a similar situation.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

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

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

Biological psychologist Also known as neuro- or biopsychologists, biological psychologists use scanners and other high-tech equipment to study the brain and learn about the biological basis of behavior.

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred-billion light-years across.

the brain is wired to answer questions. No matter what question you ask, your brain will immediately start searching for an answer.

The human brain is amazing. It functions 24 hours a day from the time we were born, and only stops when we take exam or when we are in love.

neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain and The Male Brain, which point out that a man has two and a half times as much brain space devoted to sexual pursuit as a woman, while the female brain's empathy system is considerably more active than the male's.3)

Si el hemisferio izquierdo del cerebro fue el que dio lugar a la física newtoniana, el derecho es el que ha dado lugar a la física cuántica.

El hemisferio izquierdo tiene autoconsciencia; esto es, puede tomar la suficiente distancia como para observarse a sí mismo. El hemisferio derecho no tiene autoconsciencia, no puede observarse a sí mismo y, por consiguiente, necesita al izquierdo para observarse. Esta auto-observación posee un gran poder transformador.