Quotes About Brain

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!

The brain is just the physical machine that runs the program called the mind. The brain is the hardware, the mind is the software.

a mature understanding of death appears to be one of the last milestones in the cognitive development and evolution of the human brain.

IN EUROPE, I vomited into small buckets and brushed my teeth repeatedly with chalky British toothpaste. I lay prone on the bathroom floors of several museums, feeling the cold tile underneath my cheek as my brain liquefied and seeped out my ear, bubbling. Migraines left my blood spreading across unfamiliar hotel sheets, dripping on the floors, oozing into carpets, soaking through leftover croissants and Italian lace cookies.

Or is that the nature of lust? It's like an urge that disregards all the stuff that your brain knows you actually think. I wonder if guys feel like this all the time. Or maybe if everyone feels like this all the time - everyone besides me - and that's why people act like such half-wits.

I prefer to control my brain's dopamine reactions myself. Not be at the mercy of... butterflies.

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

stress, which impairs memory, reduces neurogenesis.

But the brain's representation of the body has another major implication: because we can depict our own body states, we can more easily simulate the equivalent body states of others.

And as this happens, our growing sense of whatever the world outside may be, is apprehended as a modification in the neural space in which body and brain interact. It is not only the separation between mind and brain that is mythical: the separation between mind and body is probably just as fictional. The mind is embodied, in the full sense of the term, not just embrained.

The learning and recall of motor-related activities rely on different brain structures, namely, the cerebellar hemispheres, the basal ganglia, and the sensorimotor cortices. The critical learning and recall required for a musical performance or for the practice of sports rely on such structures in close association with the hippocampal system.

Where Do Emotive Responses Come From? The answer to this question is clear. Emotive responses originate in specific brain systems—sometimes in a specific region—responsible for commanding the varied components of the response: the chemical molecules that must be secreted, the visceral changes that must be accomplished, the movements of face, limbs, or whole body that are part of a particular emotion, be it fear, anger, or joy.

Of special note are certain divisional arrangements of main functions that are organized and coordinated by different brain components. For example, several nuclei in the brain stem, hypothalamus, and telencephalon are in charge of producing the behaviors to which I referred above, known as drives, motivations, and emotions with which the brain responds to a variety of internal and external conditions with preset programs of actions (e.g., secretion of certain molecules, actual movements