“When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories” NeedsRememberMemoriesBrainFireEventsPerceptionStrongerOriginalsPatternsSmellLinkedNeuronsRemember Something Book:Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Source: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
“To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.” ThinkingWorldNeedsSelfSeemsActionPastWealthBrainEventsIdentityFameOrdinaryConcernedAspectConnectionsSpeedConquestTruestSleepyCrippledInstantaneousSpeed Of Light Author:Eben Alexander
“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” ThinkingBusinessBrainEventsEmotional Author:Daniel Goleman
“Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.” IfsLooksDoeImportantEnoughFeelingsEyeChanceBrainEventsTerribleHundredEarsExtraordinaryPrivilegeWoodsJournalismEncountersAnguishWormsInadequacyFeelings Of Inadequacy Author:Oriana Fallaci
“Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.” HumansImportantHappensBrainEventsSurvivalTrackThings HappenBad ThingsMechanismHuman BrainAdeptBad Things HappenAdaptive Author:David Perlmutter
“Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.” CommonBrainKnownBloodEventsPercentCompromiseLatterStrokesBleedingBlockage Author:David Perlmutter
“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.” WorldBelieveRealUniverseBrainEventsObjectsIllusionPrisonCurrentsSurround Author:Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.” ThinkingWorldKindMadeStillsIdeasResultsBrainKnownEventsInformationParticularConnectionsEssenceRemainsCellsThese DaysAnalysisEncountersSuggestionsPsychologistSensoryCorrespondingHayekReinforcementVon Hayek Author:Gerald Edelman
“Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.” BodyBrainMinutesEventsDirectResponsePatternsMechanismGenesEvery SecondIndirect Author:Matt Ridley
“Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in the case of people who go through hugely traumatic events or suffer from brain injury or disease. Some would argue that religious conversions can have deep personality-altering effects. But these are all exceptions to the rule.” PeopleSeemsSufferingReligiousBrainCasesEffectsEventsPersonalityDiseaseArguingConversionObservationInjuryExceptionException To The RuleTraumatic EventsBrain Injury Author:Neal Stephenson