Brain Quote by Alastair Reynolds

“It's a thousand tiny impulses, building on one another. First you decide it's a good idea to check the oatmeal bin for bugs. Next…

— jennifer traig

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your…

— Elyn Saks

“On occasion, these periods of total despair would be made even worse by terrible agitation. My mind would race from subject to subject, but…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

— Thomas Szasz

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

— Norman Doidge

The brain is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a mistake to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by changing the…

— Suman Rai

“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear.…

— Robert Whitaker

“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness…

— Edward Shorter

“300.14* Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type* In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity, to produce…

— American Psychiatric Association

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

— Christopher deCharms

“People with mental illness are very much like people without mental illness only more so. What we lose with a psychotic episode is the…

— Mark Vonnegut

“This is what happens to the brain of those living with mental illnesses (more accurately, "brain illnesses"). The brain does not function as it…

— Kevin Hines