Hypothalamus Quotes

• The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

  Marvin Dunnette

  Sex, Motivation, Fighting

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• I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  People, Choices, Brain

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• There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

  Lewis Thomas

  Pain, Cells, Agony

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• The hunger drive is truly a mind-body connection. Eating is so important that the nerve cells of appetite are located in the hypothalamus region of the brain.

  Evelyn Tribole

  Cells, Mind, Brain

  Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. (2012). “Intuitive Eating”, p.62, Macmillan

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• In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your endocrine systems have been altered by changes to your hypothalamus. You no longer need to sleep or see sunlight.

  Marianne de Pierres

  Party, Sleep, Darkness

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• If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

  William S. Burroughs

  Psychics, Energy, Junk

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• I'm alone. And I'm crying. And no one is coming to the crib. And the nightlight has burned out. And I'm mad. I'm so mad. Left frontal lobe. I...I...I don't feel so good. Left occipital lobe. I... don't remember where...Left parietal lobe. I...I...I can't remember my name,but...but...Right temporal...but I'm still here. Right frontal. I'm still here... Right occipital.I'm still...Right parietal. I'm...Cerebellum. I'm...Thalamus. I...Hypothalamus. I...Hippocampus...Medulla.

  Neal Shusterman

  Names, Mad, Remember

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• Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Zero, Mistake, Men

  "A Man. A Legend. A What!?" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. September 23, 1991.

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