Daniel Levitin Quotes

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.

When you release endorphins, you just feel good.

Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.

I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.

Your brain is triggered to produce.

Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.

I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

Sugar and chocolate, anything that boosts your serotonin levels, is something people, I think, crave.

When you walk, your brain is working better. More blood flow.

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

The brain is such an incredible computer.

We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.

Any doctor will tell you a great treatment for depression is exercise, physical exertion, that it really ups the dopamine in your brain, so that's what a show is. I play a show and that's a high for me; I can ride that.

Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.

I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

We need musicians! We need them healthy - we need to dance and we need to escape - and none of that is possible when musicians themselves need support.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses.

I am completely of the school that mind is entirely the manifestation of brain. So when there's a change in mind, there's got to be a neurobiological underpinning.

We know that there is a connection between our feelings and our brain.