Brain Function Quotes:

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Best Success, Innovative Ideas

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

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Understanding, Brain, Important, Pertinent, Brain Function

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

source: Foreword to "Following the Synagogue Service" by Jeffrey Cohen, Gnesia Publications, (p. ix), 1997.

topic: Prayer, Heart, Play, Physiology, Brain Function

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

- Richard Restak

topic: Essence, Brain, Function, Gathering Data, Brain Function

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

- Robert Anthony

topic: Believe, Mind, Brain, Brain Function

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

- John Medina

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Yelling, Brain, Purpose, Too Much Work, Brain Function

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

topic: Powerful, Exercise, Impact, Brain Function

Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

- Daniel Amen

topic: Health, Sleep, Night, Brain Function

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

- Marilu Henner

topic: Brain, Function, Wells, Whole Foods, Brain Function

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

- Darold Treffert

source: "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part III:". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 15, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Autism, Brain, Savants, Brain Function

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

- David Eagleman

source: David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.89, Vintage

topic: Believe, Reality, Differences, Experiencing The World, Brain Function

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

source: "Searching for roots of learning disorders" by Aditi Shankardass, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2010.

topic: Brain, Ongoing, Measurement, Abnormality, Brain Function

As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

- Dalai Lama

source: His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

topic: Brain Function

I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.

- Sasha Alexander

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Brain Function

Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!

- Sarah Michelle Gellar

source: "This Is the Secret to Letting Your Kid Get Messy Without Losing It". Interview with Kate Schweitzer, www.popsugar.com. March 2, 2016.

topic: Children, Believe, Creativity, Brain Function

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

- Maynard James Keenan

topic: Reading, Brain, Listening, Left Brain, Brain Function

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

topic: Years, People, Brain, Human Brain, Brain Function

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

topic: Brain, Age, Disease, Spawn, Brain Function

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

source: "Place Mushrooms in Sunlight to Get Your Vitamin D: Part One" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2012.

topic: Mushrooms, Growth, Brain, Beta, Brain Function