Quotes About Cognition

the "normal range" have a much greater risk for brain

the same pathway that turns on BDNF production can be activated by intermittent fasting. We'll

When asked to comment on the results, UCLA researcher Beatrice Golomb said, "Regarding statins as preventive medicines, there are a number of individual cases in case reports and case series where cognition is clearly and reproducibly adversely affected by statins."30 Golomb further added that various studies have demonstrated that statins either negatively affected cognition or were neutral, and that no trial has ever shown a positive outcome.

As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, even slight elevations of blood sugar that are far below the diabetes range have been shown to significantly increase the risk for the development of untreatable dementia.7

The results of the study revealed that those individuals in the lowest 10 percent of daily physical activity had a 230 percent increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease compared to those in the highest 10 percent of physical activity. When

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.

researchers from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom gave seventy-one female undergraduate students slow- or fast-digesting carbohydrate-based breakfasts and then tested their cognitive functioning. They found that memory, especially for hard words, was impaired throughout the morning after the fast-digesting breakfast.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Peekaboo teaches a baby to imagine the continuity of reality," George wrote. "And that's an important step toward achieving consciousness.

Evolution has given us minds tuned for survival and only incidentally for truth.

Well, they never know they're ill, do they? You can't diagnose yourself with the same organ that has the disease, just like you can't see your own eyeball. So, I suppose you just feel normal and the rest of the world seems to go crazy around you.

That is how the human brain works, when it looks at a formless cloud, it tries to see a shape, or a face, or otherwise associate it with something that makes sense in some known cultural context, like the proverbial image of the Virgin Mary seen in the grain of a tree stump, or a slice of toast. But make no mistake—the observer supplies the face.

Have you never noticed that, after hearing a new word for the first time in your life, you'll hear it again within twenty-four hours?

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

you don't know until you know!

Thoughts are wakeful dreams without the pictures.

A conscious mind is the playground for thoughts and ideas and the ultimate source of personal philosophy.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Our biggest problem is that our intelligence is not intelligent

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.