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...
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 do not think of old age as an ever grimmer time that one must somehow endure and make the best of, but as a time of leisure and freedom, freed from the factitious urgencies of earlier days, free to...
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 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 autob...
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...
—¿Es usted desgraciado? —continué. —No puedo decir que lo sea. —¿Disfruta de la vida? —No puedo decir que disfrute… Vacilé, con miedo a estar yendo demasiado lejos, a estar desnudando a un hombre hast...
يدعي الطب دوما أن التجربة هي الأختبار لعملياته وبالتالي كان أفلاطون محقا عندما قال إنه من أجل أن يصبح المرء طبيبا حقيقيا لابد أن يكون قد اختبر جميع الأمراض التي يأمل أن يعالجها وجميع الحوادث والحالات...
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...
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...
[I]t is precisely such a paradox that lies at the heart of nostalgia - for nostalgia is about a fantasy that never takes place, one that maintains itself by not being fulfilled.
We are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times.
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...
The left hemisphere is more sophisticated and specialized, a very late outgrowth of the primate, and especially the hominid, brain. On the other hand, it is the right hemisphere which controls the cru...
Sudden fright, or rage, or other strong emotion may disperse and displace a migraine almost within seconds. One
Não haverá ninguém como nós quando partirmos, mas pensando bem nunca uma pessoa é como outra. Quem morre não pode ser substituído. Deixa lacunas que não podem ser preenchidas, pois é o destino - desti...