Quotes About Neurology

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Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

Your brain has an immune system, just like your body. The more you use it—the more viruses you get exposed to—the better your immune system becomes.

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

TWO TOPICS IN brain research always seem to attract geniuses and crackpots. One is consciousness and the other is the question of how language evolved.

There are nearly forty-six miles of nerves in the human body, and fibromyalgia, you get on every single inch of them.

The thing in Alzheimer's disease to remember, and we remember this all the time at Axovant, is we don't fully understand the way the actual underlying disease works.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

A ten-year, double-blind study from the Mayo Clinic concluded that even in late stages of dementia, the last to go is the lobe of the brain in charge of cafeteria layout.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Cranial neuralgia due to continuous stimulation of cutaneous nerves.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

Every time we perform a conscious action, there is just such an interchange of messages between our nerve centers, our brain and our muscles.

There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I'd done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? In my photos on my phone, I made an album called "calm." I have photos and videos of my animals, funny pictures, memes, inspiring quotes, articles about neurology, gratitude lists, all sorts of things that make me smile and reconnect to my source. It's like my own personal digital Zen museum.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

Having a normal human brain does not imply that you have religion. All it implies is that you can acquire it, which is very different.

have you ever seen an actual human brain? It's built in two parts—an outer part called the dura mater and an inner part called the pia mater. These two parts are separated by the arachnoid—a veil of weblike tissue." Langdon cocked his head in surprise. Gently, she reached up and touched Langdon's temple. "There's a reason they call this your temple, Robert.

Coke had a theory to explain grown-ups, as he did for most things in life. In his view, babies are born with a specific number of brain cells, which waste away and die off as people get older. So by the time they reach thirty—and certainly by the time they reach forty—most of their brain cells are gone. This explains why grown-ups do and say the things they do.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.