Quotes About Neuroscience

El hipotálamo está compuesto por una serie de núcleos que llevan a cabo funciones diferentes y es una parte fundamental de lo que se considera como cerebro reptiliano, nombre que acuñó el doctor Paul MacLean.

Uno de los aspectos más relevantes en lo que concierne al sistema límbico es la necesidad de contacto físico y de generación de lazos afectivos. Nos tenemos que detener aquí porque este es el punto donde se van a desarrollar la mayor parte de los traumas emocionales que experimentamos los seres humanos y que se proyectan desde la época en la que éramos niños hasta la época en la que ya somos adultos.

Recordemos que tanto la piel como el sistema nervioso son las únicas estructuras que proceden de la misma hoja embrionaria, el ectodermo.

Las amígdalas son los centros del sistema límbico donde se almacenan todos aquellos recuerdos que tienen un gran componente afectivo.

Las amígdalas están en conexión con unas estructuras vecinas que son los hipocampos. Ambas trabajan para almacenar recuerdos de gran intensidad emocional. Las amígdalas, sobre todo la del lado derecho del cerebro, almacena la experiencia afectiva que se tuvo en un momento determinado, mientras que el hipocampo del lado derecho almacena en su banco de memoria, el lugar donde tuvo lugar aquel impacto emocional.

crazy starts with a misaligned brain,

Research by Matthew Lieberman at UCLA shows that when people put words to their emotions—"afraid," "angry"—the amygdala, that little biological threat sensor that can throw the brain into animal mode, cools down almost instantly. At the same time, another part of the brain—part of the prefrontal cortex, which is the "smart" area of the brain—goes to work.

One explanation for the effectiveness of making a person "feel felt" lies in the mirror neurons I talked about earlier. When you mirror what another person feels, the person is wired to mirror you in return. Say "I understand what you're feeling," and the other person will feel grateful and spontaneously express that gratitude with a desire to understand you in return. It's an irresistible biological urge, and one that pulls the person toward you.

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

In my view, the written word ignites the brain in ways that cannot be achieved by any other medium.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

When we read a book, these specialized cells respond as if we are actually doing what the book character is doing."5

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.

An insight is a fleeting glimpse of the brain's huge store58 of unknown knowledge. The cortex is sharing one of its secrets. —Jonah Lehrer

Anyone who still believes the archaic canard that we use only a tiny portion of our brains hasn't yet become aware of what we do when we read.

Indeed, "there are as many connections"27 in the reading brain's circuitry "as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

The medium is the messenger to the cortex, and it begins to shape it from the very start.

AS DR DAVID Adam says in his brilliant account of obsessive compulsive disorder, The Man Who Couldn't Stop: 'Only a fool or a liar will tell you how the brain works.' A brain is not a toaster. It is complex.

Overloaded neurons on a nervous planet

You can clone human brains but not what is stored inside them

Within the human brain (and only the human brain), there exist specific structures responsible for the generation of our language capacities.

If you are uncertain, or lack evidence, about whether a particular outcome was caused by a preceding event, you are more likely to quickly associate them together," says Sang Wan Lee, a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at Caltech

Experimental and clinical psychologists have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

your nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real experience and one that is vividly imagined.