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By Lee Weinstein: I was wandering through the open stacks of the University of Pennsylvania’s Van Pelt library sometime in the 1980’s when I came across an interesting volume on th...
"Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique."
An existential lesson gleaned from a brush with death and foolishness.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and there i...
Patients with undiagnosed conditions suffer not only from their symptoms but also from the uncertainly of not knowing what afflicts them.
“Perhaps you could come with me to speak to some patients?...These are special patients, suffering from ...a disease no one wants to deal with.”
"Our neurons must be used ... not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to construct."
At fifteen, Ruth Brigandi woke up without language, without a name, without any sense of where her body ended and the world began. For four months, she existed in a state of pure,...
A Chinese mushroom causes hallucinations of tiny people within real environmental backgrounds. This phenomenon raises questions about perception, memory, and reality.
Like consciousness, like music, like love, life itself didn’t have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it. The universe could have gone on lapping at itself as a hor...
In 2024, Frank Muldowney learned he had aphasia, nearly 40 years after losing language following brain surgery at 19. What he experienced is now being confirmed by neuroscience.
In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds betwee...
In 2019 Lampaert woke up unable to recognise his friends, his parents, even his own name. After decades of anxiety, abandonment and bullying, was his mind just trying to shield him...
I recently sat in my studio on Outer Cape Cod to interview an expert—Suzanne Faith, a psychiatric nurse and a Certified Dementia Professional (CDP) for 40 years.
A healthy 28-year-old man began hearing music even when no music was playing. Doctors found a rare...
As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.
After he was diagnosed with “silent” epileptic seizures, doctors were able to treat his memory loss and confusion.
I remember standing before mountains, and how people seemed to be in awe at the scale. Indeed, it looked beautiful to me as well. In fact…Continue reading on Medium »
Kimon de Greef's The Ego Trip chronicles the rise of a potent psychedelic drug, from the toads that secrete it to the man who claimed it has amazing powers. Olivia Goldhill discove...
When Dr. Balamurali Ambati was four years old, he stood up on a chair in the kitchen to see what his mom was cooking. To … Continue reading →
Through music, neurodiversity, and lessons from our own family, students, and educators, we explore the many ways people reach one another beyond words—and what it means to truly l...
Losing the sense of smell can deeply affect identity, safety, and emotional wellbeing, revealing how essential this overlooked sense truly is. The post When the Ability to Smell Go...
People with advanced dementia have been known to suddenly recognize loved ones before death. Scientists are now investigating why.
Watch this. No words needed, everyone can feel it. Genes are a hell of a thing. ★
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