Prefrontal Cortex Quotes

#1. Kris was in black running shorts and a tight gray T-shirt constructed from some sort of magical material that clung to his muscles and triggered a gush of epinephrine while her amygdala attempted to reconcile two conflicting signals from her prefrontal cortex: attraction and revenge. "All

Sarah Strohmeyer

#2. Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#3. Arduous, adj.
Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already.

David Levithan

#4. Meditation is blossoming of the prefrontal cortex to overcome the momentum of the nature. It is coming out of the loops of memories, patterns,fears, dreams and anger.

Amit Ray

#5. they found considerable plasticity from the onset of puberty into the early twenties. Once this was discovered, it became obvious that the upheavals of adolescence and early adulthood coincide with a previously unrecognized sensitive period of brain maturation in the prefrontal cortex

Louis Cozolino

#6. The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Jim Yong Kim

#7. Every single decision of your life is predicated on the healthy functioning of the prefrontal cortex. Even a slight malfunction in a tiny chunk of neuron anywhere in the PFC would lead to the mental deficit in your logical decision-making.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

Lester R. Brown

#9. I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.

Joe Casey

#10. Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

Dashiell Hammett

#11. Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

Charles Spurgeon

#12. Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.

David Rock

#13. In brain scans, music lights up the medial prefrontal cortex and triggers a memory that starts playing in your mind. All of a sudden you can see a place, a person, an incident. The strongest responses to music - the ones that elicit vivid memories - cause the greatest activity on brain scans.

Jodi Picoult

#14. The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

William Cartwright

#15. became more urgent and more defined. A timeline may not be a virtual reality chamber, but it can help our brains see time for what it really is: limited.

Meg Jay

#16. If networks are to be more efficient ... this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

Francis Fukuyama

#17. I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex ... and nothing more?

Veronica Roth

#18. When you already love someone, you don't notuce what they look anymore after you get to know them. It's because you don't just see them anymore. You see what are inside. And that is love.

Rachel Van Dyken

#19. The point is that by exercising your capacity for forethought and planning, you strengthen your prefrontal cortex and its connection to the ventral striatum.

Anonymous

#20. The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

Robin Marantz Henig