"Most of us don't collapse into puddles of……" — Robert M. Sapolsky
"Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease."
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20 Quotes by Robert M. Sapolsky
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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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Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's…
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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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