8 quotes found
“If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.”
“Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.”
“If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is a...”
“On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physi...”
“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science ...”
“Prior to the monotheistic Yahweh, the gods made sense, in that they had familiar, if supra-human appetitesthey didnt just want a lamb shank, they wanted the best lamb shank, wanted to seduce all th...”
“Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to th...”
“The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal cortex) is less a product of the genes with which you sta...”
