Education Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

Down the road, the most controversial approach to neuroenhancement could be a way not of stimulating the brain but of reengineering it.

— Maria Konnikova

“A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placebos were so effective. His experiment was brutally…

— Jonah Lehrer

“small samples of people operating under special circumstances, and the long-term effects and hazards are completely unknown. However, if the technology does mature, or…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Interchanging mind control.

— Muse

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

— Joe Rogan

We believe that people will use real-time fMRI feedback to hone cognitive strategies that will increase activation of brain regions.

— Christopher deCharms

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

— Douglas Trumbull

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

— Gero Miesenbock

“At such rare times you can feel the electrically charged neurons of the prefrontal brain realigning themselves like iron fillings drawn by a magnet. ”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Experiments show that just as the brain can build new or stronger circuits through physical or mental practice, those circuits can weaken or dissolve…

— Nicholas Carr

“researchers have observed a significantly greater flow of neural traffic from the ENS to the head-brain than from the head-brain to the ENS.6”

— Marc David

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

— Ursula K. Le Guin