Anne Wojcicki Quotes

Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

It's just a matter of sometimes the CTE in your brain affects what happens in your life... and sometimes... it does not.

I'm trying to do some things with my brain institute to understand more about the impact of concussion on brain tissue, because we have some scientists over there who are really good at looking at brain tissue and the effects of things on brain tissue.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

In boxing, you've got CTE from head trauma constantly.

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.

After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.

We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.

Subconcussive injuries are brain injuries on top of unrecovered brain injuries.

My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

I got tested to see what condition my brain is in. And it's not in real good shape.

I'm learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.