من السهل تذكر الأمور الجميلة في الحياة ، الأوقات التي يبتهج فيها قلب المرء وينفتح حين يكون كل شيء مطوقاً بالعطف والحب من السهل تذكر صفاء الحياة؛ كم كان المرء نبيلا وكريماً وشجاعاً في مواجهة المحن لكن...
Your brain is you in a way in which your heart isn't.
Thus Aretaeus describes it, under the name of Heterocrania: And in certain cases the whole head is pained, and the pain is sometimes on the right, and sometimes on the left side, or the forehead, or t...
This woman who, becoming everybody, lost her own self became nobody.
This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.
There was a great gush of pus, and a loud bellow, followed by silence:
The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: str...
Sudden fright, or rage, or other strong emotion may disperse and displace a migraine almost within seconds. One
I worked with Mr. I., this was giving way to a very different vision of the brain-mind, a vision of it as essentially constructive or creative. I added that I had now started to wonder whether all per...
I had long wanted to see true indigo, and thought that drugs might be the way to do this. So one sunny Saturday in 1964, I developed a pharmacologic launchpad consisting of a base of amphetamine (for...
I do not know how much a propensity to addiction is hardwired or how much it depends on circumstances or state of mind. All I know is that I was hooked after that night with an amphetamine-soaked join...
I am sorry I have wasted (and still waste) so much time; I am sorry to be as agonizingly shy at eighty as I was at twenty; I am sorry that I speak no languages but my mother tongue and that I have not...
I am a storyteller, for better and for worse.I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobi...
God thinks in numbers,’ Auntie Len used to say. ‘Numbers are the way the world is put together.
Experientia docet,
An octopus may have half a billion nerve cells distributed between its brain and its arms (a mouse, by comparison, has only 75 to 100 million). There is a remarkable degree of organization in the octo...
With others, of whom there were no actual visual memories, there were, at one point, incontinent visual projections (perhaps analogous to Wright’s auditory phantasms and the phantom limbs of amputees:...
Whichever method is utilised—violent physical, visceral, or emotional activity—the common factor is arousal. The patient is, as it were, awoken from his migraine as if from sleep. We shall further hav...
Where was I? What had been done? I replied that I was in the recovery room and that he had detached the lateral rectus muscle of the right eye and attached the plaque containing radioiodine (I-125, to...
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, ‘smoked salmon and Bach.’ (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same).