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

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.

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.

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

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

60 percent of your brain is made from fat, specifically DHA.

Every mental event has a neural correlate. Through mindfulness we can rewire the brain for peace, harmony, laughter, and love.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read.