Brain Scan Quotes

#1. I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.

Betsy Lerner

#2. In a brain scan, relational pain - that caused by isolation during punishment - can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

Daniel J. Siegel

#3. A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

Eric Kandel

#4. Next morning I showed her brain scan to the juniors at

Henry Marsh

#5. There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

Jim McMahon

#6. There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.

Steven Soderbergh

#7. I'm a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes.

Kimberly Caldwell

#8. Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.

Sunil Bharti Mittal

#9. I hate it when she quotes Scripture. Who can talk back to the Bible?

Adrian Fogelin

#10. Fear drives away love. Without love, there is no surrender of all our inner cares and worries to the Mahanta (our inner guide).

Harold Klemp

#11. A scan showed that a benign brain tumor was pressing on her right frontal lobe. In terms of operative risk, it was the best kind of tumor to have, and the best place to have it; surgery would almost certainly eliminate her seizures. The alternative was a lifetime on toxic antiseizure medications.

Paul Kalanithi

#12. I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

Ken Livingstone

#13. Disordered clumps, wrongly beautiful, like a scan of a damaged brain

J.M. Ledgard

#14. When you write down a list of "three good things" that happened that day, your brain will be forced to scan the last 24 hours for potential positives -

Shawn Achor

#15. I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

Arthur Fry