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Robin Marantz Henig has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends…
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The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.
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The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and…
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I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things…
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Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
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When my husband and I were in our twenties, we thought it would be fun to take up cross-country skiing as a…
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Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little…
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Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.
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The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
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Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are…
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Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.
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In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive…
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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine…
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…
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As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time…
— Thomas Metzinger
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The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall…
— Eric Kandel
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Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are…
— David Chalmers
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The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look…
— Rodolfo Llinas
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Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural…
— Mark Pagel
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Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
— Antonio Damasio
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There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When…
— Oliver Sacks
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Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing…
— Jay Leno
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My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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