Neurobiology Quotes

• Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Meaningful, Brain, Patterns

  "Man On His Nature" by Charles Scott Sherrington, (p. 178), 1942.

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• The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

  Wilder Penfield

  Future, Destiny, Anatomy And Physiology

  Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”

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• Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Brain, Abnormal, Behavior

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• When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Brain, Hemisphere, Add

  "New Mindset on Consciousness". Sunrise magazine, www.theosophy-nw.org. December 1987/January 1988.

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• There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Brain, Social Pressure, Different

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.

  David Eagleman

  Depends, Who You Are

  "The Secret Lives of the Brain". Book by David Eagleman, May 31, 2011.

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• Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

  Sam Harris

  Impact, World, Morality

  "The Moral Landscape : Thinking About Human Values in Universal Terms" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2010.

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• A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

  Gabor Mate

  Hurt, Stress, Addiction

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• The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone who would seriously study the neurobiology of behavior: Is the mind organized horizontally or vertically or both, and what are the consequences to psychology of proceeding on one assumption or the other? This has been little analyzed and written about. Jerry Fodor has repaired that omission and had done it brilliantly.

  Alvin Liberman

  Writing, Issues, Omission

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