Neurotransmitters Quotes

• Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.

  Ruth Fishel

  Positive Words, Negative Words, Self

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• The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Determination, Strong, Zero

  "Global Catastrophic Risks". Chapter: "Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks". Book edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic, 2008.

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• Our ability to study the brain has been limited because of our tools and our tools have only allowed us to look at one neurotransmitter and we haven't looked so much into co-localization and co-release of transmitters. Our thinking is hampered by our tools.

  Carl Hart

  Thinking, Brain, Tools

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed. So it's really hard to call this specific neurotransmitter "the pleasure neurotransmitter."

  Carl Hart

  People, Brain, Stressed

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.

  David Eisenberg

  Pain, Perception, Acupuncture

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• While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.

  Robert Winston

  Religious, Personality, Feelings

  "Why do we believe in God?" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2005.

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• El cíngulo anterior se activa como resultado de una serie de acontecimientos. En primer lugar, disminuyen los niveles de estrógeno. Al mismo tiempo, disminuye la serotonina, el neurotransmisor del bienestar. El déficit de serotonina provoca la activación del giro cingulado anterior. Para empeorar las cosas, justo en este momento el CPF tiende a calmarse, por lo que las mujeres pueden tener dificultades para concentrarse y controlar sus impulsos. Así que vemos dificultades emocionales, intensificación de los sentimientos de tristeza y trastornos del sueño.

  Daniel Amén

  Otoño, Tristeza, Sueño

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