Quotes of: Brain-surgery Keyword

Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

Joseph Jackson

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

Merle Haggard

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

Allan Houston

Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.

Marcia Gay Harden

When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

Allan Hamilton

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

Mamie Van Doren

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Dr. Seuss

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

Karl Pilkington

A brain the size of a pea, cannot achieve what a brain the size of a melon can!!

Linda Gaine

I never did think I had brain damage.

Leon Spinks

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

Gerald Edelman

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Donal Henahan

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Adam Ant

Our visual field, the entire view of what we can see when we look out into the world, is divided into billions of tiny spots or pixels. Each pixel is filled with atoms and molecules that are in vibration. The retinal cells in the back of our eyes det...

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Exercise has a direct brain connection, when you consider what it actually does. What we tend to overlook are the feedback loops that connect the brain to every cell in the body. Therefore when you throw a ball, run on a treadmill, or jog along the s...

Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one hand, simulations of the future may produce out...

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relati...

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch

Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve in order to understand itself. The complex organization of the brain evolved as a consequence of our...

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we ...

Zeresenay Alemseged

Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a co...

Michio Kaku