WHILE MUSIC alone can unlock people with parkinsonism, and movement or exercise of any kind is also beneficial, an ideal combination of music and movement is provided by dance (and dancing with a part...
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity, Wittgenstein says. Thus it may take an outside view to show the native users of a language t...
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real founda...
Such epileptic hallucinations or dreams, Penfield showed, are never phantasies: they are always memories, and memories of the most precise and vivid kind, accompanied by the emotions which accompanied...
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...
In the mid-1950s, when I was in medical school, there seemed to be an unbridgeable gap between our neurophysiology and the actualities of how patients experienced neurological disorders.
If God, or the eternal order, was revealed to Dostoievski in seizures, why should not other organic conditions serve as ‘portals’ to the beyond or the unknown?
I gave a friend a bottle of mercury for his eightieth birthday—a special bottle that could neither leak nor break—he gave me a peculiar look, but later sent me a charming letter in which he joked, I t...
I felt inspired by Karl and determined to lift greater pound-ages myself, to work on the one lift I was already fairly good at—the squat. Training intensively, even obsessively, at a small gym in San...
At times the conviction of my want of being myself was overwhelming and most painful.
At some second transcendent moment in evolution, Edelman proposed, the development of higher-order consciousness was made possible in humans (and perhaps a few other species including apes and dolphin...
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...
يحتاج الإنسان إلى قصة داخلية مستمرة للحفاظ على نفسه وهويته *
مع كل خطوة، وكل تقدُّم، تتّسع آفاق المرء، ويخطو خارج عالمٍ منكمش؛ عالم لم يدرك أنه كان منكمشاً إلى هذا الحدّ. لقد وجدت هذا في كل حقل، فسيولوجياً ووجودياً.
الطبيبُ والمريضُ نظيران , يتّعلمُ كل منهما من الآخر و يساعده ويتوصلان معآ إلى معارف جديدة وعلاج *
There is no necessary dilution of reality in representation; quite the opposite, if the representation has power. Reality is conferred, re-conferred, by every original representation.
The enhancement of evoked potentials spread forward into the left temporal lobe, which is normally regarded as purely auditory in function. This is a very remarkable and, one suspects, fundamental fin...
Fossilised dream-sequences preserved as such in the cortex, precise replicas of past experience; they appear to be mnemic images which unfold, given the initial activation (epileptic, migrainous, expe...
Entered my life and have been with me, for better or worse, ever since. A carefree life became a careful one, to some extent. I felt this was the end of youth and that middle age was now upon me.
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason,...