Quotes About Brain Function

#1. There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same. They must reflect quite different aspects of brain function. The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions.

Susanna Kaysen

#2. The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

Richard Restak

#3. statins may lessen brain function and increase risk for heart disease. The reason is simple: The brain needs cholesterol

David Perlmutter

#4. Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

Aditi Shankardass

#5. Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man's history can outlive his brain.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#6. [T]he power of willful activity to shape the brain remains the working principle not only of early brain development, but also of brain function as an ongoing, living process.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#7. Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function ... exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.

John Ratey

#8. A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.

Gerald Edelman

#9. I'm staring and I need to stop, but seeing her inhibits brain function. Girls don't know it, but standing in the presence of beauty impairs guys. At least, it impairs me. Screw it. It's Lila. Lila impairs me.

Katie McGarry

#10. Imagine a perfect neuroimaging device that would allow us to detect and interpret the subtlest changes in brain function.

Sam Harris

#11. Huxley suggests that the reason there aren't nearly as many mystics and visionaries walking around today, as compared to the Middle Ages, is the improvement in nutrition. Vitamin deficiencies wreak havoc on brain function and probably explain a large portion of visionary experiences in the past.

Michael Pollan

#12. Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.

Paul Stamets

#13. Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

Daniel Amen

#14. Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems; all of these are fundamentally influenced by brain function and neurotransmitters.

Joan Didion

#15. We have to stop, this is insane. I literally cannot handle anymore. I think I've lost brain function. I can actually feel myself becoming stupid"
...
"Not possible. Let's test it. What's two times two?"
"Orange?

Alice Clayton

#16. Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

#17. Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

Marilu Henner

#18. If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

Dalai Lama

#19. I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

Erin Morgenstern

#20. The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

Usama Fayyad

#21. Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable.

David Perlmutter

#22. The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Thomas A. Edison

#23. For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.

The Inkslinger

#24. To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

Drew Barrymore

#25. When a group of individual brains are coordinated and function in Harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance, becomes available to every individual brain in the group.

Napoleon Hill

#26. Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.

Shelby Harris

#27. Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

Michael Merzenich

#28. Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Jeff Hawkins

#29. I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

Roger Bannister

#30. You make the most of your brain's talents if you adjust for the limitations of each system. That means creating the conditions for your deliberate system to function at its best, and recognizing when to slow down and come off autopilot.

Caroline Webb

#31. Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

Anna Friel

#32. The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

Stanislav Grof

#33. The brain can shut pain off because the actual function of acute pain is not to torment us but to alert us to danger.

Norman Doidge

#34. Creativity and spirituality function on the same side of the brain. If that is true, it is quite reasonable and natural for them to function together. The prophets and mystics we're obviously aware of this connection. p. 23.

David Brazzeal

#35. Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

Daniel J. Siegel

#36. Serotonin, the "feel-good" brain chemical that is boosted by Prozac, depends on magnesium for its production and function.

Carolyn Dean

#37. After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more sorrowful than a brain whose proper function has been disrupted?

Diane Setterfield

#38. The MindScreen is the most highly-developed function of our brain.

Ilchi Lee

#39. It had just been made excruciatingly clear to him that the human male brain and the human male cock couldn't both sustain sufficient amounts of blood to function at the same time. It was one or the other, and the human male apparently didn't get to choose which one.

Karen Marie Moning

#40. Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

William Peter Blatty

#41. Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

Alan Watts

#42. I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

Floyd Skloot

#43. While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.

Chris Kilham

#44. I can tell you that she's not breathing," he said. "She has no heartbeat and all organ function and brain activity have stopped. Also her body temperature is now at seventy-three degrees."
"So you're saying that she's dead," I said.
"Well, I can't prove it, but, yes, I am leaning that way.

John Zakour

#45. Excellent cognitive function starts in the kitchen because that's where the nutritional materials (whole foods) are prepared to act as our brain and body building blocks.

John Pierre

#46. Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past.

Peter F. Hamilton

#47. Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

Laini Taylor

#48. Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity.

Carl Sagan

#49. Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.

Paul Dudley White

#50. Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

Philip K. Dick

#51. When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.

Aditi Shankardass

#52. It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

Dick Cavett

#53. We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

Shelby Harris

#54. She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!

Ayn Rand

#55. Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.

Siri Hustvedt

#56. Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan ... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function.

Daniel J. Siegel

#57. Zane, six, knows that AIBO doesn't have a "real brain and heart," but they are "real enough." AIBO is "kind of alive" because it can function "as if it had a brain and heart.

Sherry Turkle

#58. I thought depression just meant that you're sad." "Well, in lay terms it does, but the fact is that long-term sadness is now known as clinical depression and it is directly caused by neurohormonal imbalance or the inability of specific receptors in the brain to function correctly.

Craig Hurren

#59. Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.

Joel Fuhrman

#60. Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height

Leon Eisenberg

#61. The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

Karen Duffy

#62. What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Dave Eggers

#63. In short, the brain has the power to recruit healthy neurons to perform the function of the damaged ones. Neuroplasticity enables the brain to reassign jobs.

Richard J. Davidson

#64. When a particular function of the mind does not work well, it shows how effective the brain is when it does.

Joel Levinson

#65. I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.

Bernard Beckett

#66. There are many things we don't understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don't ever let anybody tell you it can't be done.

Sally Fryer Dietz

#67. Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?

Paul Klee

#68. Indeed, Dr. Cahill and other researchers have determined that beta-HBA, which is easily obtainable just by adding coconut oil to your diet, improves antioxidant function, increases the number of mitochondria, and stimulates the growth of new brain cells. In chapter 5 we

David Perlmutter

#69. No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

Jodi Picoult

#70. Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

Jean Houston