Dale Archer Quotes

When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

A good physician goes to be helpful where there is most sickness. So a good philosopher should be where there is most stupidity

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Knowledge and engagement are a powerful antidote to forces that often work against our kids being healthy.