Foreign Accent Syndrome: Astrid L.'s 1941 Shrapnel Wound and George Michael
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Foreign accent syndrome makes a person sound as if they suddenly speak their native language wit...
3 Okt 23min
Acupuncture as Placebo: Demon Stones, Mao's TCM and Retracting Sham Needles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Acupuncture was a market worth over $24 billion in 2017, yet the scientific consensus described ...
3 Okt 25min
ASMR's Brain Tingles: A 2007 Forum Post, Bob Ross and the Grooming Theory
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, the static-like tingle that starts at the crown of the sca...
3 Okt 25min
Fatal Familial Insomnia: Silvano's Brain, Codon 178 and the Prion Alliance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late 1983 an Italian man known as Silvano arrived at a sleep institute at the University of B...
3 Okt 23min
Prosopagnosia: Face Blindness, the Fusiform Gyrus and Upside-Down Dogs
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, leaves eyesight, intelligence, and memory intact but strips aw...
3 Okt 24min
Cotard Syndrome: The Walking Corpse Delusion and Mademoiselle X
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1880 French neurologist Jules Cotard described the delusion of negation, now called Cotard sy...
3 Okt 23min
Phrenology: Gall's 27 Brain Organs, Fowler Busts and Broca's Fatal Blow
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Phrenology began with two ideas that neuroscience still accepts: the brain is the organ of the m...
3 Okt 26min
Four Humors: Settling Blood, Black Bile and Shakespeare's Choleric Shrew
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Calling someone sanguine, melancholy, or in a bad humor borrows from a medical theory that ruled...
3 Okt 24min
