Mark Fisher Quotes

It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

No amount of therapy will take care of a chemical imbalance of the brain.

Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by drugs. But most psychotherapy doesn't address the social causation of mental illness either.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

America's a very traumatized society.

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal.

I'm pretty convinced there's a chemical reality to who I am, regarding my brain, that makes me kind of a strange guy.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.