Quotes by : Robert M. Sapolsky

Prior to the monotheistic Yahweh, the gods made sense, in that they had familiar, if supra-human appetites—they....

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic,....

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.....

On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an....

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing....

The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human....

If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical....