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For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. -- Gero Miesenbock
More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is being used by your subconscious mind. -- Kevin Michel
When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response. -- Ann Hood
The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity. -- Nolan Bushnell
Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress. -- W. Bruce Cameron
Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order. -- Hanna Rosin
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind. -- David Brooks
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects. -- Margaret Meagher
It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before. -- Miguel Nicolelis
Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues. -- Stephen Covey
The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a lot of food for thought, but people have to remain curious and get their brain activity food from other places besides punk. -- Jello Biafra
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist. -- Roger Wolcott Sperry
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. -- Edward de Bono
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. -- Edward de Bono
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. -- Steven Pinker
Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain. -- Aditi Shankardass
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on. -- Steven Pinker
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you. -- Deepak Chopra
When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel. -- Laurie Helgoe
Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand. -- Naveen Jain
Muse is the brain-sensing headband that allows you to track your cognitive and emotional activity. It boosts your attention and helps you become more aware of the emotions that you're having. -- Ariel Garten
I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain. -- Joshua Roman
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. -- Polly Toynbee
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now. -- Alison Bechdel
I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all. -- Robin Gibb
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination. -- Oliver Sacks
Even 10 minutes of activity changes your brain. -- John Ratey
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function. -- Richard Restak
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. -- Gyorgy Kepes
Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel. -- Laurie Helgoe
the disinhibition caused by said brain damage, can also spur the infected individual to seek the pleasure of compulsive, casual sexual activity -- Chuck Palahniuk
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. -- Pierre Jean George Cabanis
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain. -- Nikolai Gogol
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; theyâ??re all a projection of you. -- Deepak Chopra
The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity. -- David Eagleman

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