Top 340 Neurological Disorders Quotes & Sayings

For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.

With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.

Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain disorders, to a large extent numerous neurological afflictions often reflect the mistake of consuming too many carbs and too few healthy fats.

I don't want to encourage eating disorders.

A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for any marital relationships. One of the most difficult aspects of identifying people with character disorders is that they tend to be unusually charming. People with these kinds of disorders tend to lie, cheat, exaggerate, and take advantage of others.

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

My exit strategy from pro wrestling wasn't carved in stone. I retired because of a few neck issues, some neurological issues.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.

Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

Bill Maher thinks 95 percent of the world has a neurological disorder.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

An essential question regarding treatment is whether psychodynamic therapy is effective for specific disorders.

Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

We may all be sensitive to gluten from a neurological standpoint.

The link between young girls, eating disorders and osteoporosis is a ticking time-bomb.

Hundreds of people are undergoing gene therapy today. There are no known neurological issues.

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

I want to help people with pain and stomach disorders.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed care. Seven psychiatric disorders are described and conceptualized in cognitive-behavioral terms. The authors then provided an unusually clear, reader-friendly description of how to assess and treat each disorder with illustrative case examples, and patient forms and handouts. It should prove very useful for clinicians or clinicians-in-training who want to learn how to conduct short-term treatment through an empirically validated approach.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

I'm accused of promoting eating disorders which makes me so angry.

What particularly concerns me is the rise of osteoporosis in young people and its link with eating disorders.

the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I hate religion. I think it's a neurological disorder.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

It seems obvious that moral stages must primarily be the products of the child's interaction with others rather than the direct unfolding of biological or neurological structures.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks in when you're starving—you're high as a kite, sleepless, full of a frenetic, unstable energy—and the heightened intensity of experience that eating disorders initially induce. At first, everything tastes and smells intense, tactile experience is intense, your own drive and energy themselves are intense and focused. Your sense of power is very, very intense. You are not aware, however, that you are quickly becoming addicted.

I want to open a clinic of my open mainly looking at pediatrics and neurological conditions and incorporating my love of sport and physiotherapy knowledge together.

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.