Quotes About Brain

wy wszyscy, którzy uruchamiacie od czasu do czasu swoje leniwe zwoje mózgowe, podlegacie takim samym pragnieniom i ambicjom. Takim samym strachom i odruchom samozag?ady. Takim samym buntom i rezygnacjom.

anxious kids are just following the instructions that their worry brain is giving: Proceed with caution; handle with care; warning: danger ahead.

So even if what might have started as a negative cue—pull that hair—ends with a positive result—feeling good—this feedback loop gets reinforced. The brain learns quickly what feels good and seeks to repeat it. We can interrupt that cycle with other choices of other ways to respond; this is how treatment works.

When the amygdala heats up with intense activity, emotionally loaded thoughts loom larger in our field of attention.

If the amygdala recognizes an emotionally potent stimulus similar to something we reacted strongly to in the past, it unleashes a flood of emotion and a fitting action.

To some extent, raw emotions arise from a part of the brain without words.

mindfulness practice improved the ability of the meditators' brains to control their negative emotions.

I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.

but she can't deny the realities of modern neuropharmacology: if her brain is flooded with oxytocin every time she's training Sophonce digients, it's going to have an effect on her feelings toward them whether she wants it to or not.

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Some find irony in the fact that a study of our brains revealed to us not the secrets of the past but what ultimately awaits us in the future.

Through the Stages of Childhood Chapter 14 Infancy to Childhood: Training Objectives Howard's son suffered brain damage during infancy.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

If you're public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you're nervous about a date and thinking, 'I'm gonna be a dork,' picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.

When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't have heads, although there are some. It's good to have a head because it puts some of the sensory organs - eyes, ears, whiskers or whatever - next to the CPU, the brain.

Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.

Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.