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I wondered where Mahoney went after he was kicked out of the Academy. Glad he did well. Not sure I'd want him working on my brain, though.

Dr.Brian talking about the brain, sweet

I have mad respect and complete awe for doctors in general and surgeons in particular.
Neurosurgeons are literally god's angels. Thank you for everything you guys do, the whole science and practice and industry.
Very grateful for modern medical science and surgery. 🙂
Also, excellent communication style, Dr. Brian Kopell. Great balance of informative versus dumbed down.

Like someone else said, this question would only be feasible to someone who has done both careers! Otherwise it’s a type of question asking for a banana and you get an apple instead!

Im an OR nurse, and i wondered if he'd mention the cauterized flesh smell. For anyone who is curious, it smells almost exactly like burning hair. It can be off-putting, but i got used to it fast.

if my teacher in elem and high school like him I'll probably a surgeon now... easily to explained.

So you’re telling me… you’re COOKING me while operating on my brain? WTF 🤯 I have questions!

His argument for why brain surgery is harder than rocket science is really, really bad. Like, there are more grains of sand on a beach than there are children in any individual family. Does that mean building a sand castle is harder than being a parent?

Brain surgeons don't micromanage every individual neuron in the brain. And rocket scientists don't need to know every star in the universe.

"I used to think the brain was the most fascinating part of the human body. Then I realized..... look what's telling me that". - Emo Phillips

no offense but this guy sounds like a british man doing an american accent

Thank God people like this exist.

This guy is a whole book bro😂😂😂❤amazing

Just want to point out that Dr. Kopell is absolutely wrong when he says that “The amount of connections between … [one] hundred billion neurons are greater than all of the stars estimated in universe.” There are way more stars in the universe than neural connections.

why does he actually looked like mcdreamy

You are so handsome, I'd let you play with my brain 😊

As the fields in question require different qualities the difficulty probably relates to the individuals proclivities.

I'm sure this chap may have found aerospace much more challenging than neurosurgery. Inclination towards Biological sciences and maths although not mutually exclusive, probably differs substantially and high level proclivity towards both is unlikely.

As a physio people underestimate how much biology we need to know in all fields to be successful, but it's a better comparison than the aforementioned and i think we can all agree neurosurgery is way harder 😂

I appreciate how he called speedrunners "videogame athletes"

What's harder? definitely brain surgery because you aren't allowed to make mistakes and improve you gotta get it right the first time

This dude makes atleast 780.000$ a year

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Astronomers: :O

I’m not going to watch a second of this but I guarantee it’s going to be this guy trying to act humble but failing to contain his pretentious nature completely

How often does he do Q&A? Very interesting

The brain is as scary as the ocean

I always thought I wanted to be a rocket surgeon when I grew up.

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How much of the brain can you take away without killing the patient?

Rocket Science can mean alot of things. Is it the amature hobbyist playing with cardboard tubes and Testes brand fizzers? Or theoretical physicists?
Theoretical physics is like killing a mythical giant. But when you finaly find that one equation that works then you won.
Medicine is like killing a million ants. After the first 100,000 your arms feel like rubber but you gotta keep going.

Talk about a hot doctor, sheesh!

I hate the smell of burnt smell that cautery gives out

look at the time on his watch go back and forth throughout the video.

Being theoretical physicist in m-theory or dark matter is harder than any surgeon job imo.

Rocket science is harder, you don't get as much feedback with the "real thing" in "real conditions" like with brain surgery.

We have more brain surgeries than space rockets launched.

This is the nicest neurosurgeon I’ve ever seen

Egas Moniz ON top

I hope i never need this mans services. No offense but thinking about all this is terrifying

Sorry, but brain surgery is definitely not harder than rocket science. As a medical student, there is a lot of practice, memorization and learning that goes into the craft. In rocket science however, there is a lot of outside the box thinking, conceptualization of abstract concepts and the application of seriously tough maths. The degree of precision in rocket science is also much greater. It takes possibly hundreds of insanely smart people to get a rocket into space. It takes one wonderfully skilled neurosurgeon and his team to perform a surgery.

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I hope they never find a “cure” for ADHD.

I am exactly the way evolution and natural selection intended.

It’s only a disorder when framed through modern medicine.

Actually, the number is about 86 billion neurons, not 100 billion.

"Which is harder?" Which parts of neurosurgery and rocket science are we comparing? Sending a small rocket up in the sky is backyard science, but visiting the moon requires the concerted effort of thousands of people. Likewise, a lobotomy (technically neurosurgery!) could be performed in the office of a GP, whereas some of the operations performed today requires extensive planning and dozens of involved specialists. Failure causes death in both cases, albeit in a somewhat more spectacular fashion in the rocket science department. I'd say it's a moot point.

If I ever need to get brain surgery, I want this dude to do it.

Actually, you don’t have to be rocket scientist, it’s enough to be physicist or mathematician … the amount of theory knowledge to understand basic concepts is quite hard. Harder than just read a book and performing procedures, which you can actually practice and become good at it by the time.

It's definitely Rocket Surgery.

Fellow neurosurgeon here! Great video!!

i always get this tingly feeling in my head when people are talking about brain operations...

There are way more than 100 billion stars in the universe, think you mean galaxy.

i wanna see this dude’s bank account

Brian the Brain surgeon. Destiny.