Quotes About Brain

I have this theory that the bluescreen gives off rays that penetrate the brain and make you go crazy," says Hamill.

The inhibition of behavior provoked by cat odor is remarkably powerful and long-lasting. As summarized in Figure 1.1, following a single exposure to cat odor, animals continued to exhibit inhibition of play for up to five successive days. Our interpretation of this effect is that some unconditioned attribute of cat smell can innately arouse a fear system in the rat brain, and this emotional state becomes rapidly associated with the contextual cues of the chamber.

We now know that the placebo effect is real medicine that operates mainly through the activation of brain opioid systems.

For quite a while, the development of psychiatric medicine has been stifled by man-made concepts, gleaned from complex symptomatology rather than from brain research.

Each emotional system is hierarchically arranged throughout much of the brain, interacting with more evolved cognitive structures in the higher reaches, and specific physiological and motor outputs at lower levels.

Because of the ascending interactions with higher brain areas, there is no emotion without a thought, and many thoughts can evoke emotions. Because of the lower interactions, there is no emotion without a physiological or behavioral consequence, and many of the resulting bodily changes can also regulate the tone of emotional systems in a feedback manner.

I would suggest that subjectively experienced feelings arise, ultimately, from the interactions of various emotional systems with the fundamental brain substrates of "the self," but, as already mentioned, an in-depth discussion of that troublesome issue will be postponed until Chapter 16.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. Robert Frost

The adult brain and nervous system grow and change throughout our lives. Until the very end, we are neurologically transformed by whatever we practice. We are not limited by the past.

If you stop to think about it, even the most obvious stimulus-response transaction requires some internal messaging in the mind and body of the receiver of the stimulus. Even if you touch something hot and jerk back instantly, what really happened was that a message went up your arm to some part of your brain – "Pain down here!" – and your brain sent a reflexive message back down the arm again – "Jerk away from it!

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.

Todos los detalles de cualquier percepto, todas las formas geométricas, los colores, los cambios de perspectiva y las texturas se encuentran algorítmicamente concentradas en cada punto de la Lattice. Pero en su decodificación añadimos nuestra propia estructura y organización cerebral y de la interacción entre esta y las características de la Lattice, surgen las cualidades (luz, sonido, textura, etc.) que nos son familiares.

Ya veremos más adelante que la propia organización del Cerebro Humano es un modelo de la Lattice. Pero este modelo todavía no llega a ser idéntico al territorio que quiere representar. Únicamente cuando nos convertimos en la Lattice misma, estaremos en posibilidad de percibir la Realidad tal como existe y tal como es en sí. Esta

La estructura del Cerebro en su conjunto es una macro distorsión compleja de la Lattice y su actividad distorsiona a la misma Lattice que le da origen.

Elvis doesn't share our gift of matrimonial telepathy, though. And he did have a plastic brain. He still looked clueless.

Precision, accuracy and pondering in wisdom and sciences, will nourish and develop a person's brain.

Mind is not in any one place. Every cell in this body has its own intelligence. The brain is sitting in your head, but mind is all over the place.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

Innovation Games let customers engage other centers of their brain, resulting in richer, deeper, and more meaningful exchanges of information

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in childhood! I do not mean suffering of an imaginary kind; I mean disease which may entirely ruin a life which might have been of use to the world, and which surely would have been happier but for the lost health. Many a chronic invalid might have preserved his health had he been taught to use his brain properly when a child.

The trouble with multitasking. In study after study, researchers have shown that performing multiple tasks at once makes the brain less efficient. Basically, the brain doesn't become proficient at doing multiple tasks, it simply becomes faster at skipping back and forth between them and blocking other information out.

Our brains are always busy, even when we're not trying. They take all of the events and information of our days and try to make them fit together. Try to make sense of them. And now and then, two or three pieces of information fit together in an unexpected way. This is called "getting an idea.