Helen Fisher Quotes

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

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

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

Your brain is triggered to produce.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

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

The neural code usually refers to how your current thoughts and feelings and perceptions are encoded in the signals that neurons are passing around - and it's not the same. The code is not the same for every person.