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“Neuroscience in no longer simply the science of the nervous system. It is the actual empirical science of self-awareness.”
“Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.”
“Neuroscience is poetry.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Neuroscience is Poetry (Sonnet 2717)
Human brain is the most astonishing
transdimensional engineering of Mother Nature,
from outside it's just a 3 pound lump of goop,
but inside, the very fabric of spacetime
bursts into existence -
we stretch time when we suffer,
we compress time when we're joyful,
we expand space in empathy,
we collapse distance through memory -
we invent gods when we feel helpless,
we invent weapons when we're scared,
we invent poetry when we're inspired,
we invent politics when we want control -
in short, the human brain is bigger
on the inside than the outside.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It makes us dream more positively. It makes us more optimistic about ourselves and the world even in our darkest days. It makes us achieve our goal endowed with strength even through immense miseries. It allows us to attain the subjective reality of our fellow humans. Imbued with the understanding of the mind we can walk in the shoes of other people.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Neuroscience of Ideology (The Sonnet)
No matter the intention of origin,
No ideology can stand uncorrupt through time.
Even the perfect of theories fall apart, because,
The brain can't pledge obedience without being blind.
To maintain the grandeur of an ideology,
The mind chooses to switch off certain faculties.
Thus the mind starts digging its own grave,
As well as for the world, without even knowing it.
Ideology relevant today won't be relevant tomorrow,
But the ideology itself isn't aware of this.
Thus in the guise of savior it keeps raising sheep,
Who then turn defensive and ruin all possibility of peace.
Borders don't preserve peace, borders only breed war.
All peace is fiction till we treat every border
as Donald Trump's wall.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.”
“Neuroscience supports collective healing: research on neuroplasticity and polyvagal theory shows that as individuals heal from trauma, they become more resilient, connected, & capable of problem solving - all skills for building a flourishing society.”
“Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.”
Source: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
“Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills Over time, [meditators'] brains become finely tuned willpower machines.”
“Neuroscientists have observed that Autistic brains continue to develop in areas associated with social skills for far longer than neurotypical brains are believed to. One study, conducted by Bastiaansen and colleagues (2011), observed that though young Autistic people experienced far less activity than allistics in the inferior frontal gyrus (an area of the frontal lobe involved in interpreting facial expressions), by age thirty no differences between non-Autistics and Autistic people were evident. In other words, Autistic brains eventually “caught up” to neurotypical brains, in terms of how actively they processed and interpreted facial expressions as social data. Other studies have found that Autistic people over the age of fifty are comparable to allistic people, in terms of their ability to make sense of the motivations and emotions of others.
Researchers aren’t sure why these findings occur, only that they help to justify conceiving of Autism as a developmental disability or delay. For my part, I suspect that Autistic people get better at reading faces and understanding human behavior over time because we eventually develop our own systems and tricks for making sense of the world. We might have developed at the same pace as neurotypicals if we’d been given accessible tools earlier on. The social scripts and shortcuts that work for neurotypical people do not work for us, so we have to teach ourselves to develop social instincts.”
“Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient”
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
Source: Psychology and religion: West and East
“Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East
“Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.”
“Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.”
“Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”
“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).”
Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.”
Source: Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.”
“Neurosonnet 2001
Neurons giveth,
neurons taketh away.
By neurons we forge self,
with neurons we fade away.
Within neurons cosmos comes to life,
within neurons worlds come to end.
Neurons are building blocks of walls,
as well as the instrument of bridges.
There is not one but two cosmos,
one made by nature, another by neurons.
We are the makers of observable reality,
shaped by hopes and biases of our own.
Neurons are the birthplace of God,
Neurons produce all ghosts and goblins.
Life is a concoction of neurochemistry,
Boon and bane are both our own making.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Neurosurgery attracted me as much for its intertwining of brain & consciousness as for its intertwining of life & death.”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and direct confrontation with meaning, identity, and death.”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.”
“Neurotic, ha!" I let out a scornful laugh. "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
Source: the bell jar
“Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.”
Source: What to do when you're bored and blue
“Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.”
“Neurotic people often feel as if they are fakes, playing the social game while inwardly despising it, and have a sense of illegitimacy as if they lacked a place in the world. This sense of having a double life creates conflict, yet in as-if cases, there is never a struggle between the "real me" and the social self, as one might expect. It is an identification without conflict. Sometimes, their stiffness and superficiality in social relations may be noticed by other people, and it can give the picture of the commitment-phobe. In fact, the person just knows at some level to stay away from situations that would involve an appeal to the symbolic, those, precisely, where a commitment is involved.”
Source: What Is Madness?
“Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.”
“Neurotic suffering indicates inner conflict. Each side of the conflict is likely to be a composite of many partial forces, each one of which has been structured into behavior, attitude, perception, value. Each component asserts itself, claims priority, insists that something else yield, accommodates. The conflict therefore is fixed, stubborn, enduring. It may be impugned and dismissed without effect, imprecations and remorse are of no avail, strenuous acts of will may be futile; it causes - yet survives and continues to cause - the most intense suffering, humiliation, rending of flesh.
Such a conflict is not to be uprooted or excised. It is not an ailment, it is the patient himself. The suffering will not disappear without a change in the conflict, and a change in the conflict amounts to a change in what one is and how one lives, feels, reacts.”
Source: How People Change: A Serious Psychological Work on Human Transformation
“Neurotic: The one who is so obsessed with himself or herself, that believes everything I post on facebook is a personalized message, and reacts with depression, anger or revenge, towards everything he or she reads. Also the delusional one who thinks by unfriending me or blocking me on facebook such will cause me some sort of personal trauma, as if I wasn't pleased to see my facebook list cleaning itself and by itself without any effort from my side. Neurotics are often offended by the truth or have a horrible phobia for arguments they can't fight against, and truly believe that in a perfect society everyone should have their words filtered by a higher authority before speaking, while assuming that freedom of speech is the freedom to talk or write what others expect to hear or read. They also think that as long as they refer to generalizing words before each sentence, such as "everybody", "people" and "normal", nobody will notice how deeply insane they are.”
“Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.”
“Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.”
Source: All the Stories of Muriel Spark
“Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.”
“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”
“Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.”
“Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.”
“Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.”
“Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.”
Source: The meaning of treason
“Neurotypical - Is the Word Useful? And/or Meaningful
The word itself doesn't make sense - being used to describe "others" (people who aren’t on the spectrum) society is a mixture of different sorts of people and rather than lumping people into one "group" (neurotypical society, neurotypicals, NTS) wouldn't it be best to say people who don't have autism? People who aren't on spectrum? It has also been used as word to "attack” people who don't have autism which surely is reverse prejudice? Two wrongs certainly don’t make a right in this case.
I like people on the basis of being people it doesn't matter who they are or were they come from I like them for their personalities not because of anything other – human beings are all unique and that means we are all equal in the world.”
Source: Living Through the Haze