Quotes About Brain

The "Intense World" paper proposed that if the amygdala, which is associated with emotional responses, including fear, is affected by sensory overload, then certain responses that look antisocial actually aren't.

The body and the brain aren't two different things, controlled by two completely different sets of genes. Many of the same chemicals that work in your heart and organs also work in your brain, and many genes do one thing in your body and another thing in your brain.

The Mind of a Mnemonist

Research has also shown that when performing language tasks, the autistic subject relies on the visual and spatial areas of the brain more heavily than the neurotypical subject does, perhaps to compensate for a lack of the kind of semantic knowledge that comes with social interaction

Questions swirled in my brain like terrified bait minnows in a bucket.

He wonders if this is a lack within himself. Is there a part of the brain from which love comes that in his case has drastically malfunctioned? The world is awash in love—on the radio, in movies, in the pages of novels. Romantic love is the common cultural narrative, yet he seems immune to it. Thus, though he has yet to taste the pain that comes with love, he has experienced pain of a different, related sort: the fear of facing a life without it.

Have your own opinions, stand up for your own beliefs. You have your own brain, so use it. - Kailin Gow

Now, now-don't strain that magnificent brain of yours trying to work out my motives-we have a lunatic clank to destroy!

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Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?

The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is not set up for reading.

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.

Italians think with their heads.

Often, ageing has more to do with your brain than your body. Some people become old and jaded at 25, and some, like my mother, have the curiosity of a child at the age of 94.

The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.