…and hardly evident at all in other mammals. They are the part of the brain that grows and develops most after birth. Oliver Sacks, M.D., An Anthropologist on Mars The human brain is the most complex entity in the universe. It has between 50 and 100…

…cell phone. I dictate all kinds of quotes from... medical texts from books, even the whole books. Anyway, here's a quote by Oliver Sacks, the British born American neurologist and writer. And it's so much to what you just said. And he's writing to a…

…it's so much to what you just said. And he's writing to a woman who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. And here's what Oliver Sacks writes to her. What seems to me less stressed and most in need of stressing is that you are an individual. unique in…

…more specific, you look at certain politicians and... But what almost any of them really, you know, there's a famous story in Oliver Sacks wrote in his, the man who mistook his wife for a hat, wrote about a group of aphasiac patients listening to,…

…Reagan on television, the president, the great communicator. And most of them are laughing and some of them are totally outraged. And Sacks asked himself, What is it? Is it that they don't understand Reagan? Or is it that they understand him all too well?…

…elect the politicians that we elect. If we're connected to our gut feelings, there's a very interesting story about Ronald Reagan. Oliver Sacks, who was a British-American neurologist and writer, he wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and other…

…chemical. People without dopamine are listless and inactive, inert. In the movie Awakenings, where Robin Williams played the psychiatrist Oliver Sacks, he gives these people dopamine for a while and they come alive for a while. So, the dopamine circuits…

…ever speak at. And that's because of the gut-brain connection. And it's very interesting. As I mentioned in this book, Dr. Oliver Sacks, who is a neurologist, describes a group of patients who have lost the capacity to process language because of a stroke,…

…all laughing on this ward. And some of them are just angry at Reagan, but most of them are just laughing at him. And Sacks asks himself, well, what is it? Is it that they don't understand Reagan? Or is it that they understand him all too well? And…