Dr. Alfredo Quiñones Hinojosa

If it is a part of the brain where I can literally stop language, the patient stops as the moment I touch the brain with my stimulator, they stop at 10.

And they pause.

And I got my stimulator on the brain for one second, two seconds, three seconds, making sure that I don't give any seizures.

And then suddenly I take the stimulator away from the brain and the patient continues, 11, 12, 13.

And then you ask them, what happened?

And they'll be like, what do you mean what happened?

I was counting.

They don't realize that you have them stop time.

Isn't that amazing?

That's how beautiful the brain is.

Well, the strangest response is eliciting memory.

It's strangest and at the same time more beautiful.

You know, we're stimulating a part of the brain and suddenly the patient will remember

a memory of childhood, a beautiful memory of their parents, a beautiful memory of their pet or something very powerful.

And they get either very ecstatic, happy if it's a happy memory, or they get very sad if it's a sad memory.

And that to me is the beauty of how little we know about the brain and how much more we need to learn.

100%.

I agree with you.

And I poke fun at myself.

I tell people that I'm nothing else.