{"quotes":[{"text":"This looks very much as if the integration of the day's experience into our memory, the forging of new neural links, is either an easier or a more urgent task. As the night wears on and this function is completed, the more affecting dreams, the more bizarrematerial, the fears and lusts and other powerful emotions of thedream material emerge.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["dreams","human-brain","sleep"],"id":4368,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"The human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","brainy","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","god","god","human-brain","human-mind","meditation","mind","mind","mindfulness","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nonduality","oneness","oneness-with-god","philosophy","religion","sage","science-of-mind","self","transcendence","transcendence","transcendentalism-god","words-of-wisdom"],"id":7634,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["dreams","human-brain","sleep"],"id":23516,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"Now you know that the fascinating phenomenon of love has nothing to do with the supernatural entity known as Cupid, but everything to do with neurochemistry. Likewise, divinity is a cerebral creation, not a supernatural one. And it has been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn’t made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain!","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["biology","brain","brainy","consciousness","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","cupid","cupid-s-arrow","divine","fantasy","human-brain","human-mind","human-nature","ignorance","limbic-system","love","love","miracle","miracle","mystic","mysticism","neuropsychology","neuroscience","neurotheology","paranormal","philosophy","primitive-human-behavior","romance","sage","science","science-and-religion","supernatural","supernaturalism","truth","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":60422,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The brain makes up l/50th of our body mass but consumes a staggering 1/5th of the calories we burn for energy. If your brain were a car, in terms of gas mileage, it’d be a Hummer. Most of our conscious activity is happening in our prefrontal cortex, the part of our brain responsible for focus, handling short-term memory, solving problems, and moderating impulse control. It’s at the heart of what makes us human and the center for our executive control and willpower. The “last in, first out” theory is very much at work inside our head. The most recent parts of our brain to develop are the first to suffer if there is a shortage of resources. Older, more developed areas of the brain, such as those that regulate breathing and our nervous responses, get first helpings from our blood stream and are virtually unaffected if we decide to skip a meal. The prefrontal cortex, on the other hand, feels the impact. Unfortunately, being relatively young in terms of human development, it’s the runt of the litter come feeding time.","author":"Gary Keller","tags":["brain","human-brain","prefrontal-cortex","the-brain"],"id":62515,"author_id":"Gary+Keller"},{"text":"Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.","author":"Guy de Maupassant","tags":["animal","creation","enemy","god","human","human-brain","ideal","nature"],"id":72921,"author_id":"Guy+de+Maupassant"},{"text":"Healthy brains create a healthy society.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brain","human-brain","human-life","humanity-and-society","life-lesson","mental-health","neuology","neurobiology","neurophysiology","neuropsychology","neuroscience","psychology","social-progress","social-wellbeing"],"id":80750,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider audience.","author":"Robert Harris","tags":["fact","ghostwriting","human-brain","politics"],"id":90304,"author_id":"Robert+Harris"},{"text":"Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["brain-anatomy","evolution","human-brain","intelligence"],"id":93922,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from individual to individual. The process of treatment can therefore be long and complicated. Finding the right balance of drugs, whether lithium salts, anti-psychotics, SSRIs or other kinds of treatment can be a very hit or miss heuristic process requiring great patience and classy, caring doctoring. Some patients would rather reject the chemical path and look for ways of using diet, exercise and talk-therapy. For some the condition is so bad that ECT is indicated. One of my best friends regularly goes to a clinic for doses of electroconvulsive therapy, a treatment looked on by many as a kind of horrific torture that isn’t even understood by those who administer it. This friend of mine is just about one of the most intelligent people I have ever met and she says, “I know. It ought to be wrong. But it works. It makes me feel better. I sometimes forget my own name, but it makes me happier. It’s the only thing that works.” For her. Lord knows, I’m not a doctor, and I don’t understand the brain or the mind anything like enough to presume to judge or know better than any other semi-informed individual, but if it works for her…. Well then, it works for her. Which is not to say that it will work for you, for me or for others.","author":"Stephen Fry","tags":["bipolar","bipolar-disorder","ect","human-brain","human-mind","informed-consent","informed-decisions","judgemental-people","lithium","mental-disorder","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","psychiatric-drugs","psychiatry","respecting-others"],"id":96358,"author_id":"Stephen+Fry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}