"Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get……" — Robert M. Sapolsky
"Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out — that sort of thing."
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Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping…
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We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you…
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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
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We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
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Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
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The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent…
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Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side
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Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
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If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for…
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Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the…
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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths…
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The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.
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