The Neuroscience of Human Relationships Quotes

“Those who are nurtured best, survive best.”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment And the Developing Social Brain

“The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough.”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment And the Developing Social Brain

“of the diverse systems within our brains. Optimal sculpting of the prefrontal cortex through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment problem solving. We can now add a corollary to Darwin’s survival of the fittest: Those who are nurtured best survive best.”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

“Thus, the brain remains plastic into adulthood and can be changed for the better through positive interpersonal relationships.”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

“Emotions are our conscious experiences and interpretations of our bodily states, involving many of the brain’s neural networks (Calder et al., 2001).”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

“Countless learning experiences are organized and stored in right-hemisphere networks; these stored experiences give rise to what we call “gut feelings.”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

“While the increasing inhibitory ability of the left hemisphere has led to greater cognitive abilities, it also resulted in a capacity to separate mind, body, and emotions. Experiencing the world from high atop the left hemisphere led Descartes to equate human existence with thinking, much to the detriment of psychology and neurology. Thus we have found that with specialization and increasingly complex functioning, the “healthy” brain has become vulnerable to the types of dissociation we see in psychological disturbances.”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

“It is the power of being with others that shapes our brains.”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

“Humans, having the most complex brains and intricate society, have the most prolonged period of total dependency of any species (Cacioppo & Berntson, 2002). Compared with the young of other primates, human babies are born quite early relative to the maturity of their brains. In fact, the first 3 months of life have sometimes been referred to as the fourth trimester. If we followed the pattern typical for other primates, we would stay inside our mothers for 24 months (Gould,”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

“complexity. Assuming”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain