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Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well. -- Marilu Henner
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. -- Maynard James Keenan
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
Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses. -- Paul Stamets
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function. -- Thomas R. Insel
Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function. -- Daniel Amen
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function. -- Richard Restak
Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years. -- Seymour S. Kety
Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function"¦exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems. -- John Ratey
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know. -- Gerald Edelman
Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart. -- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table? -- Henry Markram
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. -- Thomas A. Edison
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain. -- Douglas Coupland
For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning. -- Lou Gramm
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence. -- Jeff Hawkins
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial. -- Dick Cavett
Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities. -- Bill Berry
The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization. -- Matthew Stewart
When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised. -- Aditi Shankardass
The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master. -- Tariq Ramadan
Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable. -- David Perlmutter
Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial. -- Siri Hustvedt
I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending. -- Roger Bannister
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function. -- Joel Fuhrman
Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it. -- Michael Merzenich
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area. -- Karen Duffy
Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do. -- Jean Houston
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged. -- Jodi Picoult
To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function. -- Drew Barrymore
We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain. -- Shelby Harris
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. -- Daniel J. Siegel
The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork. -- Usama Fayyad
Certainty and similar states of "?knowing what we know' arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason. -- Robert A. Burton
If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly. -- Dalai Lama
While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love. -- Chris Kilham

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