Richard Bergland Quotes

Richard M. Bergland was an author, administrator, neurosurgeon and neuroscientist. He was chief of neurosurgery at Beth Israel Hospital of New York. He was also a Van Wagenen Scholar, a Markle Scholar and Macy Faculty Scholar and served academic appointments at Oxford, Harvard, Cornell and Columbia, among others. Wikipedia

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“Physicians and scientists will measure brain hormones—in ventricular fluid and elsewhere—will link these to specific diseases, and will devise space-age techniques to restock the mind's hormonal pantries. The only question is, When?'”

Richard Bergland

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.”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

“Miracles of inner healing are everyday occurrences.”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

Richard Bergland Quotes

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

“The brain remains silently separated from the noisy endocrine consequences.”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

“Few would have predicted that the discovery of the circulation of the blood would have changed the way philosophers view the world, theologians conceive of God, or astronomers look at the stars, yet all of that happened.”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

“Every organ is a hormone-producing gland.”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

“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.”

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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

Richard Bergland

As quoted in "Van Wagenen Fellowship Richard M. Bergland 1968 Oxford University," American Association of Neurological Surgeons (2004)

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

Richard Bergland

As quoted by Christopher Bergland "How is the Cerebellum Linked to Autism Spectrum Disorders?" Psychology Today (Sept 2013) referring to the cerebellum's containing 50% of the brain's neurons in only 10% of the volume

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