Quotes about Neuroscience

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger.

The way you treat a child, from the time that child is born, is what sets them up to either succeed or struggle. What you are really saying is, how you were loved informs the way your important neural networks are shaped, especially those core regulatory networks we

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

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The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.

Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

Certainly the prefrontal cortex is an important thing; I'm as proud of mine as the next guy.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.