Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. – Tan Le
When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic. – Thomas R. Insel
The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain. – Sam Kean
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation. – Warren Farrell
The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research. – Susumu Tonegawa
It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times. – Tom Brady
When you turn up in Leicester Square and there are 5,000 people screaming your name and holding placards, that’s just weird. It’s hard to find a place for it in your brain that makes any sense. I’m not really comfortable in that sort of situation. – Sean Biggerstaff
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction. – Siri Hustvedt
Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It’s simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain. – Tom DeLonge
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on. – Steven Pinker
I’m a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don’t remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out. – Steve Cropper
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. – Vladimir Putin
It’s thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there’s a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery. – Siri Hustvedt
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world. – Shawn Achor
When the brain gets lost, it doesn’t stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that’s when things open up. That’s exciting. – Simon McBurney
You can’t hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain. – Steven Pinker
The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won’t get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don’t learn a language early on, it’s nigh impossible to become truly fluent. – Sam Kean
I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories. – Stephen Hawking
To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer – but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort. – Scott Reed
For all of my life I’d been extremely healthy. I’d never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. – Sanya Richards-Ross
That’s the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain – they cannot be otherwise. – Zadie Smith
Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain’s normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing. – Steve Mann
When you’re clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I’ll probably have to be on it the rest of my life. – Terry Bradshaw
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for? – Virginia Woolf
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function. – Thomas R. Insel
