The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
