Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.