A psychiatrist who has scanned 300,000 brains explains why we ignore brain health despite it being the only organ where size actually matters. He describes scanning his mother's healthy brain at 60, then his own damaged one a week later, showing how brain function shapes everything from relationships to financial decisions.
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as somebody who's suffered brain damage and really struggled with a lot of brain issues, your work is so important to me. What do people not realizing that they need to be doing?
Nobody cares about their brain. So penis envy, I've not seen it once in 45 years as a psychiatrist. The only organ where size really does matter is your brain. So I'm 37 at the time I order my first scan, and the week before I scan my mom, she was 60 at the time, stunningly beautiful brain.. And then a week later I scanned myself and it wasn't healthy. And I was irritated and I developed a term I call brain envy. Everything I've done since 1991 is to get a better brain. Mm-hmm. Because when you have a better brain, you have a better life because your brain is involved in everything you do, how you think, how you feel, how you act, how you get along with other people. It's the organ of selling. It's the organ of managing your money. It's the organ of love. Of discipline and every decision you make. In my experience, after scanning now almost 300,000 brains over the last 35 years— 300,000 brains! When your brain works right, you work right. And when your brain is troubled, you're much more likely to have trouble in your life.
