Nobel prize Quote by Michael Crichton

“A fatal disease vanishing for another reason was New Guinea’s laughing sickness, transmitted by cannibalism and caused by a slow-acting virus from which no…

— Jared Diamond

“Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness (kuru) in the New Guinea highlands used to…

— Jared Diamond

“New Guinea’s laughing sickness, transmitted by cannibalism and caused by a slow-acting virus from which no one has ever recovered. Kuru was on its…

— Jared Diamond

“Already, the brain consumed more than a quarter of the body's blood supply... an organ accounting for only a small percentage of body mass.…

— Michael Crichton

“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism..”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our…

— Buket Uzuner

“Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as a knockout.”

— Norman Mailer

Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.

— Bernard Jensen

“Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles atrophied. Like…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

— Peter Breggin

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might…

— Wilder Penfield