Quotes About Neuroscience

May your cortisol levels stay low, your dopamine levels high, your oxytocin run thick and rich, your serotonin build to a lovely plateau, and your ability to watch your brain at work keep you fascinated until your last breath. I wish you well on your journey.

Your brain craves patterns and searches for them endlessly. THOMAS B. CZERNER (2001)

Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.

Studies of teenage behavior shows that the terrible teens is not a biological necessity, as a number of cultures don't experience this phenomenon. A study of teenagers in Western cultures found that these teenagers have fewer choices than a felon in prison. Food for thought. Finding a way to make a choice, however small, seems to have a measurable impact on the brain, shifting you from an away response to a toward response.

And as with the sensory elements of the motor spindles, the pathways carrying the sensory information from the Golgis are culminated in the ganglia of the brain stem, with very few direct connections to the conscious cortical areas. We normally receive no more conscious sensation from the Golgis than we do from the muscle spindles; their information is processed and responded to primarily in the brain stem and the spinal cord, beneath our level of conscious awareness.

When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself.

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

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

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Change is a more complicated process involving brain integration than is data gathering.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Knowledge in the brain is distributed. Nothing we know is stored in one place, such as one cell or one column. Nor is anything stored everywhere, like in a hologram. Knowledge of something is distributed in thousands of columns, but these are a small subset of all the columns.

You can't simulate a brain without first understanding what it does.

feedback plays a minor or "modulatory" role in the brain.

love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain

In my preface, I quoted an e-mail message from someone who was upset by the news that neuroscientists had shown that free will is an illusion. She was, she said, "in a lot of despair." My final moral is the title of a song: "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Scientists have not shown this. Nor has anyone shown that there are no effective intentions. This is good news for just about everyone.

Feeling awful is physiological you say. God I hate you, I say. Yes you can find the neurons for feeling awful. Do you think you can find the neurons for the fact I hate you?

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Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table?