Sublime

leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare and lethal infiltration that brought with it a prognosis of only several months and the looming shadow of swift neurologic decline.

Illness makes people even more physical, turns them into only a body.”

Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, when it comes to autism and schizophrenia. In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

profissionais que antes negligenciavam o cérebro fisiológico em favor do emocional agora negligenciam a mente emocional em favor da química do cérebro.

He possessed all the qualities commonly attached to men of intellectual genius. He was absentminded, withdrawn and focused on his work to the detriment of the most basic everyday tasks, at which he was charmingly inept.

Sa fascination pour ce fragment de cerveau me paraissait, en la circonstance, sacrément audacieuse. Jusqu’à ce que je découvre qu’un certain Thomas Harvey, pathologiste chargé de déterminer les causes de la mort d’Albert Einstein survenue le 18 avril 1955, avait, une fois son travail achevé, quitté l’institut dans lequel il travaillait, emportant a

Mr Brooke himself was not in a position to be quickly conscious of anything except a general slipping away of ideas within himself: he had even a little singing in the ears, and he was the only person who had not yet taken distinct account of the echo or discerned the image of himself. Few things hold the perceptions more thoroughly captive than an

The brainstem directly controls our states of arousal, determining, for example, if we are hungry or satiated, driven by sexual desire or relaxed with sexual satisfaction, awake or asleep.

É verdade que a medicação tem nos libertado, mas devemos nos importar com as origens da doença.