“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The limbic system is, in turn, connected to the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus, which controls the release of hormones that affect… — Althea Press Copy Share Image
“Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals' brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing… — Adrian Raine Copy Share Image
“The brain and the central nervous system have such enormous needs for vitamin C that they actually operate 'vitamin-C pumps' to extract… — Daniel P. Reid Copy Share Image
“From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philosophers' or 'meta-physicians'. But they seldom… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“All the evidence suggests that the defect that causes ET is in the central nervous system.” — Mark Plumb Copy Share Image
“Movement is how the body remembers itself. It is how survival shifts into recovery. It is how safety is relearned, one step,… — Jasmin Tzortzakakis Malik Copy Share Image
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And it’s thought by many neuroscientists such as Rodolfo Llinas of New York University that such goal-directed active movement, a biological property… — Karen Shanor Copy Share Image
Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of… — Mike Seabrook Copy Share Image
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“you are the same as an insect, just with a more complex nervous system responding to stimuli with a wider array of… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey.… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“the body is equipped with what Cannon named the stress response, also known as the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism that gets… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
“The Central Nervous System is like a cup of tea that you must never let overflow." -Charlie Francis, Sprint Coach Every stressor,… — Frederick C. Hatfield Copy Share Image
“Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“When we take deep, long, slow breaths, we can actually stop the “fight or flight” portion of our nervous system (called the… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
“The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I'm actually pretty scientifically interested. I have a lot of friends who are doctors, so the idea of the virus and the… — Noah Emmerich Copy Share Image
“Frustrations happen and we begin to get triggered. When this happens to you, you can rely on a brief and very simple… — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
