The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“But my brain, which is also I, your brain and the thoughts within it, as well as the house across the street,… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Typically there are little fragments of specific words and images swimming around in my mind, and then at some point, I'll sit… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is… — Ann McKee Copy Share Image
From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain.… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“Such networks of neurons are built following the principle that “cells that fire together, wire together” (Hebb’s rule). In short, neurons that… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the… — Elizabeth West Copy Share Image
You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Father, One day, a woman walked into my life. I hurt her deeply with the harshest words possible. I pushed her away… — Ma-Roo Copy Share Image
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a… — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
“I once read that if the folds in the cerebral cortex were smoothed out it would cover a card table. That seemed… — Jay Ingram Copy Share Image
There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is beyond bad. It carves out its own category of godawfulness. And, please, you don't have to… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Spinning out of my neuromarketing work where, based on scanning the brains of 2,000 respondents' brains using fMRI, we learned that there's… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
There's something behind the decision to choose to lash out at a woman. The answer to how to fix internet trolling is… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
What we want, we have for our pains The promise that if we but wait Till the want has burned out of… — Fitz Hugh Ludlow Copy Share Image
The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
Asana and complementary services are bringing the evolved team brain to the entire world. In great companies like Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Foursquare,… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
“A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it’s not the only factor. But it is something… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
