Brain Quote by Jonathan Michel Metzl

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

— Michael Marmot

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

— Sebastian Seung

“The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

— Leon Kass

“The brain-disease model takes control over people’s fate out of their own hands and puts doctors and insurance companies in charge of fixing their…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“We are biological beings, shaped by genetic inheritance and the organization and health of our neurological structures. We have rich inner lives of diverse…

— David N Entwistle

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

— Norman Doidge

We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine if we…

— Susannah Cahalan

“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness…

— Edward Shorter

I'm not saying certain illnesses don't come from genetic baggage and all that. It would be too simplistic to summarize and make it all…

— Caroline Dhavernas

“We do not have to look for diseases to explain why some people are not able to experience the full flowering of their potential.…

— Gabor Maté