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Richard Bergland Quotes

1932–2007

Richard M. Bergland (1932 - 2007) was an author, administrator, neurosurgeon and neuroscientist.

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

It is the synchrony, the synergism and the spatial juxtaposition of whirling hormonal forces that give life to the human soul.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Doubtless the study of brain electricity helped in understanding the internal circuits of the brain, but it solved few problems of brain disease.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

Every organ is a hormone-producing gland.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

The brain remains silently separated from the noisy endocrine consequences.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

Miracles of inner healing are everyday occurrences.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

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

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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?

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Bergland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.