Quotes About Brain Plasticity

#1. Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

Norman Doidge

#2. Complex training environments such as action video game play may actually foster brain plasticity and learning.

Barbara Oakley

#3. If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

Tom Robbins

#4. Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

Morrissey

#5. You are the kind of woman who makes me believe in God, Ceony," he murmured. "I don't know how else it could be possible to find you. For heaven's sake, you even delivered yourself to my front door." She

Charlie N. Holmberg

#6. -understand. She'll want to visit her family."
"If she does, it can only be for a day at the most. I don't approve of her, but the people are fond of her, not to mention the Italians. It would be very inconvenient if she died.

Kiera Cass

#7. The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

Oliver Sacks

#8. They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.

Freya North

#9. If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Thomas A Kempis

#10. The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

Deepak Chopra

#11. I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.

Kurt Fuller

#12. Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

Philippa Perry

#13. 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

#14. Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with.

Sung Kang

#15. What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing ... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

Jean Dujardin

#16. When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it.

Munia Khan

#17. Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

#18. Buddhism has long had a theory of what in neuroscience is called the plasticity of the brain.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

Robert Kiyosaki