Top 20 Prefrontal Quotes
#1. While many different animal species have nervous systems that enable anticipation of events - for example, learning that a flashing light is associated with a reward in a conditioned learning experiment - planning for the future seems to be a prefrontal invention.
Daniel J. Siegel
#2. The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.
Robin Marantz Henig
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The idiosyncrasies of human preferences seem to reflect a competition between the impetuous limbic grasshopper and the provident prefrontal ant within each of us.
Walter Mischel
#7. Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.
David Rock
#8. At such rare times you can feel the electrically charged neurons of the prefrontal brain realigning themselves like iron fillings drawn by a magnet.
Joyce Carol Oates
#9. 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
#10. The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
Jim Yong Kim
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.
Christopher Hitchens
#14. 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
#15. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn't that true?" "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a prefrontal lobotomy.
Douglas Adams
#16. You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'
Jessy Schram
#17. I've been to Australia.
I've met the devil
drank beer
and snogged kangaroos.
Alan C. Martin
#18. My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.
Michael Michele
#19. What has really changed in the industry is the consumer. The 'he' is now a 'she,'
Donna Kane
#20. The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.
Rene Dubos
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