Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes brain clinical damage
In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing. Floyd Skloot beverlyimaginemarry Change image and share on social
Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes. Floyd Skloot affectassaultbrain share on social
My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art. Floyd Skloot artartistfiber share on social
We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations. Elizabeth Blackburn 000clinicalcollect share on social
Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment. Brian Eno actionattentionbrain share on social
We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this. Aaron Ciechanover bodycreatedamage Change image and share on social