The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this case the ancient surgeon was already beginning observations on the localization of functions in the brain.
James Henry BreastedStichwörter: biology brain neuroscience anatomy injuries ancient-egypt hieroglyphic ancient-medicine medical-history
Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.
James Henry BreastedStichwörter: speech brain neuroscience anatomy ancient-egypt hieroglyphic disorders ancient-medicine medical-history frontal-lobe speech-pathology
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
V.S. RamachandranStichwörter: humor science emotions neuroscience
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.
Oliver SacksStichwörter: arts music feelings neuroscience abstract
Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
Dan BrownStichwörter: brain neuroscience
The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.
Robert A. BurtonStichwörter: science neuroscience
- I'm a Neuroscientist.
- What's that? What do you study?
- I study your brain!
Stichwörter: brain joke neuroscience
Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply unconscious filter mechanisms, and in doing so, we unknowingly construct our own individual world, which is our "reality tunnel.
Thomas MetzingerStichwörter: consciousness reality dreams existentialism subjectivity neuroscience unconsciousness thomas-metzinger
Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals' brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing assault, murder and other antisocial acts. ....
Many offenders also have impairments in their autonomic nervous system, the system responsible for the edgy, nervous feeling that can come with emotional arousal. This leads to a fearless, risk-taking personality, perhaps to compensate for chronic under-arousal.
Many convicted criminals, like the Unabomber, have slow heartbeats.
It also gives them lower heart rates, which explains why heart rate is such a good predictor of criminal tendencies. The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, for example, had a resting heart rate of just 54 beats per minute, which put him in the bottom 3 per cent of the population.
Stichwörter: determinism crime neuroscience brains criminal genetics genes neurology criminology brain-states
There must be some supreme creative energy, he thought, that can take love and turn it into synapses and then take a population of synapses and turn it into love. The hand of God must be there
David BrooksStichwörter: love religion neuroscience
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