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I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis.

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.

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.