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“Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by God. He left the clinic in fine spirits. He had no intention of removing the tumor. It was the per...”
“Youre not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.”
“My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs turn to roll the dice.”
“Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.”
“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person wont have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive se...”
“Your brain is a forest,And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch,Snaps jumps between the leaves.”
“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...”
“Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill ...”
“If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.”
“Exercise has a direct brain connection, when you consider what it actually does. What we tend to overlook are the feedback loops that connect the brain to every cell in the body. Therefore when you...”
“A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.("Three O'Clock")”
“The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.”
“There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.”
“I think our brain is our soul. I dont believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.”
“Many pathogens (both chemical and behavioral) can influence how you turn out; these include substance abuse by a mother during pregnancy, maternal stress, and low birth weight. As a child grows, ne...”
“Always follow your heart ... But take your brain with you too.... Be smart.”
“You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about.”
“The communication between the brain and the heart is a two-way dialogue.”
“The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the di...”
“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it's piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it's ruthlessly making plans, contingencies, plotting out a future, giving ze...”
