"Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized……" — Norman Doidge
"Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment..."
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9 Quotes by Norman Doidge
Norman Doidge has 9 quotes on this site.
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We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and…
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Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After…
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Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
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All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same…
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Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand…
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Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death.…
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Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading,…
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The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help…
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More Atrophy Quotes
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one of 42 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
— Thomas A. Edison
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God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will…
— John Howe
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts,…
— Charles Darwin
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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
— E. Stanley Jones
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far…
— Ezra Pound
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The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as…
— Steve Pavlina
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity…
— Coleman Dowell
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The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.
— Tom Platz
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