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Miracles of inner healing are everyday occurrences.

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Whatever the cerebellum is doing, it's doing a lot of it.

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Neurosurgery can be learned... neurosurgery cannot be taught.

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The brain is a gland of unity: the brain is one with the body.

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The existing paradigm about the brain has ceased to function adequately.

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The brain remains silently separated from the noisy endocrine consequences.

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The greatest array of brain hormones is found in the ventricle, not in the spinal fluid.

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Those at the top in brain science gained their pedestals by knowing more and more about less and less.

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Twenty years from now, the disease, 'presenile dimentia' will be understood as well as diabetes is today.

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The measurement of hormones in the bloodstream of patients will not reflect the endocrine activity of the brain.

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Genetic engineers are powerless in all of this without some cooperative effort from people working in allied fields.

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Amending your own mind is very, very satisfying… amending other people's minds is a fruitless, unsatisfying effort.

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Not all ideas of the ideas that pass from one brain to another brain... are good ideas; some are mistakes. These I call 'mismemes'.

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The hormonal genies that have lived unnoticed in the brain since humankind began have escaped; there is no way that they can be put back.

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Brain/body relationships might depend upon a chorus of individual hormones... which are released together to sing hormonal harmonies to the body.

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Molecules move not only from the brain to the endocrine system but also from the endocrine system, indeed, from all parts of the body to the brain.

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Already in animals, some gland-like cells have been transplanted from the adrenal gland into the brain, where they not only survive but continue their secretions.

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In decades to come ventricular catheterization performed to measure hormone concentrations will become as routine as the measurement of lumbar 'pressure' is today.

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If the question, 'Why is the heart hollow?', had a profound impact on all intellectual disciplines, would you expect any less of the question, 'Why is the brain hollow?'

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Regulatory messages or hormones flow from specific regions of the brain to specific glands within 'hollow' nerve fibres exactly as Erasistratus, Galen and Descartes had taught.

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Neurosurgeons perform ventricular taps with great frequency.... While this is not something to be done lightly, the risks are no greater than those for cardiac catheterization.

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If a 'memory peptide' could be found to be deficient in patients with dimentia, these patients could be treated in the same way that patients with diabetes are treated with insulin.

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If the powerful hormone vasopressin, or ADH, is injected into the blood, the body will retain water. If ADH is injected into the ventricle the opposite happens: the body loses water.

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The double-think of modern science—'Molecules shape the body, but electricity shapes the mind'—ends abruptly with the realization that regulatory hormones control both brain and body functions.

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