Katie Price Quotes

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain and nervous system and the mind with a scientific approach is just incredible! Its philosophical, psychological and biological, three very interesting areas to me.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll buy 40 books and absorb them in a couple of weeks. I'm a nerd like that.

Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.

One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.

I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

I was always interested in curing the brain.

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.