Quotes About Brain

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

Neurons are living cells with a metabolism. And they need glucose in order to function. Glucose is the fuel of the brain, just like gasoline is the fuel of your car.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.

It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don't stop.

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

After a night of poison, your brain wakes up in the morning saying, No, I don't give a shit who introduced the sweet potato into North America. The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become the nodes around which wisdom weaves its fibrils.

Manipulating the neck risks attacking the arteries that carry the blood to the brain. Because there is usually a delay between damage to the arteries and the blockage of blood to the brain, the link between chiropractic treatment and strokes went unnoticed for many years.

Once the little squirt has found a suitable home, it attaches itself soundly to the spot and then, needing it no longer, reabsorbs its own brain (a feat that arouses much admiration among university professors, Steve Jones quips).

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Thy designs are a bottomless pit. How can I descend into this pit to examine it? Thou lookest thousands of years into the future and then Thou judgest. What today seems an injustice to man's minute brain becomes, thousands of years hence, the mother of man's salvation. If what today we term injustice did not exist, perhaps true justice would never come to mankind.

Then there are other media, too, their role is quite different: it's diversion... The purpose of those media is just to dull people's brains; to get them to watch national football... or get involved in astrology or fundamentalist stuff, just get them away, get them away from things that matter. And for that it's important to reduce their capacity to think.

Kissing Red must've killed off some of your brain cells, Ryder decided. You can tell a woman what to do---if you play it right---and maybe, maybe half the time she'd do it, or something close to it. That's a live woman. A dead one? I figure that's closer to zero.

You want to pay me? Give me a slice of that pizza." "What? Seriously?" "That's Rinaldo's pizza. I've got a weakness." "You want a slice of pizza?" "It doesn't seem like much to ask after I risked a concussion and possible brain damage to change your tire.

Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.

the disinhibition caused by said brain damage, can also spur the infected individual to seek the pleasure of compulsive, casual sexual activity