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Theodore Schwartz

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01 / evaluation

I don’t think that raw IQ is what makes a great neurosurgeon. It is psychologically very demanding because you are taking care of people at a moment in their lives that is the most critical, where they’re in most need of help, and they basically hand over to you their most prized possession for four hours, six hours.

“I don’t think that raw IQ is what makes a great neurosurgeon. It is psychologically very demanding because you are taking care of people at a moment in their lives that is the most critical, where they’re in most need of help, and they basically hand over to you their most prized possession for four hours, six hours.”
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02 / belief

I think we’ll have a very effective treatment for depression and certain mental diseases, things where it’s circuitry that’s involved but the biology is still intact.

“I think we’ll have a very effective treatment for depression and certain mental diseases, things where it’s circuitry that’s involved but the biology is still intact.”
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05 / belief

I think the Holy Grail for us is to put down the scalpel and to not have to drill through the skull and to be able to deliver energy into the brain without opening up the head.

“I think the Holy Grail for us is to put down the scalpel and to not have to drill through the skull and to be able to deliver energy into the brain without opening up the head.”
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06 / belief

I think we’re as happy as our last operation went, honestly. Yes, if you go to a neurosurgery meeting, people have smiles on their faces, and they’re going out and shaking hands and telling funny stories and enjoying each other’s company.

“I think we’re as happy as our last operation went, honestly. Yes, if you go to a neurosurgery meeting, people have smiles on their faces, and they’re going out and shaking hands and telling funny stories and enjoying each other’s company.”
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07 / belief

One thing that I realized is, no matter where I am, there’s always part of me that’s thinking about the patients that are in the hospital that I operated on last week and how they’re doing, and maybe one of them is struggling a little bit, and I have to be aware of that.

“One thing that I realized is, no matter where I am, there’s always part of me that’s thinking about the patients that are in the hospital that I operated on last week and how they’re doing, and maybe one of them is struggling a little bit, and I have to be aware of that.”
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08 / belief

I think that the undergraduate education — liberal arts — I was a philosophy and English major, which was wonderful, and I loved the expanding universe that I explored.

“I think that the undergraduate education — liberal arts — I was a philosophy and English major, which was wonderful, and I loved the expanding universe that I explored.”
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09 / belief

I think, yes, there’s always going to be politics involved, and we always come to any problem from a unique single perspective, and institutions are going to have their biases.

“I think, yes, there’s always going to be politics involved, and we always come to any problem from a unique single perspective, and institutions are going to have their biases.”
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14 / belief

If you look at Freud from a feminist perspective, and you don’t like penis envy, or you look at the Oedipal complex and just judge him that way, then sure, there’s a lot to criticize. But if you look at his structure of the mind and how he subverted the power of the ego and validated the unconscious, I think he was brilliant.

“If you look at Freud from a feminist perspective, and you don’t like penis envy, or you look at the Oedipal complex and just judge him that way, then sure, there’s a lot to criticize. But if you look at his structure of the mind and how he subverted the power of the ego and validated the unconscious, I think he was brilliant.”
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15 / recommendation

I think the best thing to do is try to find someone that you know, a friend of yours who’s in the healthcare profession, and have them call around and ask their friends because they’ll know someone who is a neurosurgeon.

“I think the best thing to do is try to find someone that you know, a friend of yours who’s in the healthcare profession, and have them call around and ask their friends because they’ll know someone who is a neurosurgeon.”
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16 / evaluation

We can alter someone’s behavior, someone’s desires, feelings based on deep brain stimulation because all of our behaviors derive from circuits in the brain that are firing in a particular way.

“We can alter someone’s behavior, someone’s desires, feelings based on deep brain stimulation because all of our behaviors derive from circuits in the brain that are firing in a particular way.”
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17 / prediction

I think that there are hundreds of different modules processing information in the brain and determining what behaviors we should do and making decisions for us, and then we carry out that behavior.

“I think that there are hundreds of different modules processing information in the brain and determining what behaviors we should do and making decisions for us, and then we carry out that behavior.”
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19 / recommendation

What that means is, instead of doing the procedures that I had learned, where you open up the side of the head and take off the skull and pull down the muscle and go around the brain, I was learning and pioneering surgeries where we go in through the nostrils with endoscopes or make little incisions in the eyelid.

“What that means is, instead of doing the procedures that I had learned, where you open up the side of the head and take off the skull and pull down the muscle and go around the brain, I was learning and pioneering surgeries where we go in through the nostrils with endoscopes or make little incisions in the eyelid.”
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22 / evaluation

I think that in the interpretation of MRI scans — when a patient comes into your office with a conglomerate of symptoms, and you’ve got to figure out what they have — those things in AI are very good at.

“I think that in the interpretation of MRI scans — when a patient comes into your office with a conglomerate of symptoms, and you’ve got to figure out what they have — those things in AI are very good at.”
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23 / evaluation

When I take a drug orally, take a pill, put an IV drug in, a lot of those drugs don’t get into the brain, because there’s protection, because the brain doesn’t want poison or toxins to influence the brain, so not everything gets in.

“When I take a drug orally, take a pill, put an IV drug in, a lot of those drugs don’t get into the brain, because there’s protection, because the brain doesn’t want poison or toxins to influence the brain, so not everything gets in.”
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24 / prediction

I think any part because all parts of your personality are based on brain circuitry, and once we alter that circuitry, we will alter who you are.

“I think any part because all parts of your personality are based on brain circuitry, and once we alter that circuitry, we will alter who you are.”
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