Chantel Prat > Quotes

“if your brain weren’t engineered to respond differently in the face of changes in its internal and external environments, you would be more predictable, less interesting, and a whole lot less successful in evolutionary terms.”
― Chantel Prat, The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours

“However, in individuals with ASD, basal ganglia activation caused connectivity between the occipital lobe and the frontal lobe to increase. It was as if the basal ganglia were turning up the volume on everything in individuals with ASD. Take-home message: The basal ganglia’s job of turning less-important (or distracting) signals down is at least as important as the process of turning the relevant signals up.”
― Chantel Prat, The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours