Quotes About Neurologists

In the bipolar patients we have studied, there is a significantly increased number of small areas of focal signal hyperintensities [areas of increased water concentration] suggestive of abnormal tissue. These are what neurologists sometimes refer to as 'unidentified bright objects,' or UBOs.

Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

When today's brain scientists talk Asperger's, there's no mention of damage—just difference. Neurologists have not identified anything that's missing or ruined in the Asperger brain. That's a very important fact. We are not like the unfortunate people who've lost millions of neurons through strokes, drinking, lead poisoning, or accidental injury. Our brains are complete; it's just the interconnections that are different.

Feminist Gloria Steinem has called research on sex differences "anti-American." She says, "It is what is keeping us down." According to Gloria Allred, such research simply should not be done. "This is harmful and dangerous to our daughters' lives, to our mothers' lives, and I am very angry about it." Feminist critics have a term for neurologists who study sex differences: "neurosexists.

Though she was never correctly diagnosed in her lifetime, neurologists now believe she had a syndrome called Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a hereditary disorder that damages the nerves to the arms and legs.) Christina

2001 study by the Association of British Neurologists found thirty-five cases of neurological complications, including nine strokes, occurring within twenty-four hours of neck manipulation.