Gehry's brain institite

proportional sensitivity

 

Penfield's Homonculus:  a 'grotesque creature' with large lips and hands and small trunk and legs depicting the representation of body-parts within the primary somatosensory cortex,

 

neuroscientist and entrepreneurial artist

 

repressed memories

"The findings imply that in response to traumatic stress, some individuals, instead of activating the glutamate system to store memories, activate the extra-synaptic GABA system and form inaccessible traumatic memories." 

- Full Northwestern University article here.

"I just push words around."

"We got to pry that singer loose."
- Rob Baker on acquiring Gordon Downie for his new band The Tragically Hip.

current state of the art

Current brain medicine is like shooting a shotgun at it from 30 feet away. With continued progress,  it'll be like firing a rifle at it from 3 inches away. Then ultimately molecular microns away.
- An amalgamation of the words expressed by Dr. Jorge Soni, Dr Eric Kandel, among others.

The quiet power of meditation

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"The brain accounts for a quarter of our energy consumption but just 2% of our body mass."
- Jeff lliff

"To mimic the computational power of your brain, one would have to construct a computer the size of a city block, cooled by a river, energized by a nuclear power plant."
- Michio Kaku

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"goon"

Bob Probert - undisputed all time NHL heavyweight champion.

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"If you can get computers to learn that's worth 10xs Microsoft."
- Bill Gates

The Brain

100 billion neurons connected by 100 thousand billion synapses.  

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In infants, neurons grow at the rate of 700 per second.

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limbic

The Brain: A User's Guide to Emotions

Source: The Brain: A User's Guide to Emotions

Image courtesy of Pamela Brooke.

"I see no difference between a healthy active 95 year old brain compared with a healthy active 35 year old brain. It's a myth that we lose however many brain cells a day. It's not true."
- Dr. Peter Davis, Neuroscientist & Pathologist, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

positive psychology

"Only 10% of your happiness is predicted by the external world. 90% of long-term happiness is determined by how your brain processes the world you find yourself in."
- Shawn Achor, Harvard University

mindfulness

"We basically forget 50% of what we have learned in the last 24 hours."
- Attributed to Joshua Foer

white and red

Presynaptic activity (in white) of a single neuron (in red). Source here.

search for enlightenment

"All of modern philosophy consists of unlocking, exhuming and recanting what has been said before."
- V.S.  Ramachandran