http://www.autoadviceoffl.com/Braindisease.htm
I found this to be pretty interesting.
Eight Real Diseases That Give You Superhuman Powers
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If you are interested in these phenomena, I would suggest two books byneurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks (Author of Awakenings, that they based a movie on) :
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat,
and
An Anthropologist on Mars
He catalogues different people with bizarre neurological disorders, such as a lady that could only interpret the right half of her visual field, and had to rotate in her chair several times during a meal in order to eat all the food on her plate and not just half of it. There was also the med student who had taken too many stimulants to survive residency, and his sense of smell, sight, and hearing were temporarily heightened to the level of a dog's. All of the leather-bound volumes of a set of encyclopedias were a different color, according to him in this state.
While all the various afflictions sound neat, they are most often debilitating to the sufferer; but it does give insight into the mysteries of the brain.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat,
and
An Anthropologist on Mars
He catalogues different people with bizarre neurological disorders, such as a lady that could only interpret the right half of her visual field, and had to rotate in her chair several times during a meal in order to eat all the food on her plate and not just half of it. There was also the med student who had taken too many stimulants to survive residency, and his sense of smell, sight, and hearing were temporarily heightened to the level of a dog's. All of the leather-bound volumes of a set of encyclopedias were a different color, according to him in this state.
While all the various afflictions sound neat, they are most often debilitating to the sufferer; but it does give insight into the mysteries of the brain.
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Ayn Rand
". . .and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
Ayn Rand
". . .and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."
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