James Nesbitt

I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.

Irish Actor

Vikram Patel

I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

Indian Scientist

Sam Kean

Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.

American Writer

Myron Rolle

Neurosurgery is a new challenge with each case. The preparation, the discipline, the technical skills and the need to perform at your very best under pressure provide the same adrenaline rush I had in football.

Bahamian Athlete

Mary Lou Jepsen

After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.

American Businesswoman

In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

We are trained to be medical doctors first and if you have to put neurosurgery aside to deal with the most vulnerable and susceptible patients, then that's what we'll do.

Malcolm Gladwell

In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

Canadian Author

Seven years of neurosurgery is a big deal, something I wanted for a long time, really excited about it.

Sharon Stone

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

American Actress

Neurosurgery is a specialized branch of surgery focusing on the nervous system.

Medical Specialty

Neurosurgery involves complex procedures and is associated with delicate medical care.

High Complexity

The term neurosurgery is typically used for serious health issues and severe injuries.

Serious Conditions

 In order to understand anything about the brain and ultimately about psychology, we have to understand neurons. We know a lot about nerve cells in post-mortem, in dead brains and of course in animals. But there's a rare occasion when you can actually listen in to the way neurons talk to each other, and that's during neurosurgery.

National Geographic...

 and degrades rapidly at room temperature. So this experiment would have to cause a surge of oxytocin, have to grab it fast and keep it cold. I think I can do that. Now luckily, oxytocin is produced both in the brain and in the blood, so I could do this experiment without learning neurosurgery.

Paul Zak: Trust,...

 now I trained in medicine in India and after that I chose psychiatry as my specialty much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who can't afford neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son any case I went on I soldiered on with psychiatry

Mental health for all by...

 So I am indeed a neurosurgeon, and I follow a long tradition of neurosurgery, and what I'm going to tell you about today is adjusting the dials in the circuits in the brain, being able to go anywhere in the brain and turning areas of the brain up or down to help our patients.

Andres Lozano:...

 particularly in the developing world. Now I trained in medicine in India, and after that I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

Mental Health for All by...

 At some point in your life— maybe even now— you might wonder whether freelancing is right for you. You'll need a few things to be successful. First, you'll need a skill that's in demand. This can be as universal as driving a car to as specialized as neurosurgery,

What is a gig economy?

 neurosurgeon and I follow a long tradition of neurosurgery and I'm going to tell you about today is adjusting the dials in the circuits in the brain being able to go anywhere in the brain and turning areas of the brain up or down to help our patients so as I said

Parkinson's, depression...

 these community health workers aren't doing neurosurgery, but they're making it possible to bring health care within reach of everyone everywhere. So now what? Well, we know that there are still millions of people dying from preventable causes

No one should die...

 So that said, there's a stigma when you have brain surgery. Are you still smart or not? And if not, can you make yourself smart again? After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that.

Mary Lou Jepsen: Could...

 show how important it is not to do harm. More recently, Harvey Cushing, who really developed neurosurgery as we know it, who changed it from a field of medicine