459 Quotes About Neuroscience

Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever.

When it comes to behavior, there is not one, but two types of behavior, one that is instinctual - the kind of behavior that helped our ancestors survive the harshness of the jungle, then there is the behavior of a civilized being - a behavior that is driven by thought and warmth - the behavior of a caring and conscientious human.

The best way to step beyond weakness is to embrace it.

An entire life, lavishly colored with ecstasies and agonies, is exclusively born from the functional expression of neurochemistry. Every time that we sob in sorrow or laugh in joy, we do so, steered by a glorious storm of hormonal interplay within the deepest parts of our mind. And with each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth.

An inclusive narrative structure provides the executive brain with the best template and strategy for the oversight and coordination of the functions of mind. A story well told, containing conflicts and resolutions, gestures and expressions, and thoughts flavored with emotion, connects people ad integrates neural networks

I can tell you the biological roots of your desires and drives, but implementing that factual information in a practical manner in your life is completely on you.

Any lingering doubts that intelligence is a rich topic for neuroscience should be melted away given the genetic and neuroimaging studies described in the previous two chapters. If not, please suspend any remaining disbelief until the end of this chapter wherein even more compelling findings are described.

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

By assuming that IQ is real and quantitative, we can expect negative value from many people.