When the Senses Become Confused
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After a stroke, the brain tries to reorganize itself.  However, sometimes this process goes awry, leaving one woman to feel sounds on her skin.
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NEW YORK  - People who suffer from what was once called "hysteria" show altered patterns of brain activity connected to their symptoms, researchers reported Monday.
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Scientists say they have identified faulty brain waves that may explain the symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Feelings of phoniness appear to alter peopleâs goals in unexpected ways and may also protect them against subconscious self-delusions.
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It has long been suspected that manâs best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us. Now the first experiment to verify that scientifically has demonstrated that dogs are able to smell cancer.
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Of all the senses, Alzheimer&#39;s and dementia patients first lose the sense of smell, and some American scientists recently found 10 specific smells that people lose first.
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Scientists believe learning a second language alters a part of the brain.
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Scientists have found a switch in the brain that appears to control anxiety and wakefulness.
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Electric shock experiments on humans have shown that brain regions linked to fear responses are also highly activated when fears are unlearned, a finding that provides insight into developing drugs for anxiety and other fear disorders.
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have been.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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The insula is a long-neglected brain region that has emerged as crucial to understanding what it feels like to be human.
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In a new study, scientists have found that the left and right ears process sound differently.
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At some point during a recent tour of the Contemporary Museum's "Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone," I started to become aware of two overpowering feelings: paranoia and technological inadequacy.
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Imitation can be the sincerest form of confusion.
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The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work with blind children shows.
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Even a mild concussion may leave âinvisibleâ but disturbing symptoms, which are indicators of a postconcussive syndrome.