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Alien hands in fiction

Alien or anarchic hand syndrome is where you lose conscious control of one of your hands after brain damage to the point where it seems to have a 'will of its own'. There's a great short article in this month's Cortex examining how this curious phenomenon has appeared in fiction. Famously, somet...

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Mind Hacks — 23 hours ago

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Like a hole in the head: a very medical tribute

Harvey Cushing was not only a pioneering neurosurgeon but a fantastic artist, as can be seen from his amazing scientific illustrations. It turns out, he gave a few below-the-radar tributes in his drawings, as he based several illustrations of brain surgery 'patients' on portraits of his colleague...

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Mind Hacks — Yesterday

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Straight outta Bedlam

I've just found an odd study on whether rap and heavy rock music encourages 'inappropriate behaviour' in psychiatric patients when compared to easy listening and country tunes. It sounds like it could be something from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but as I don't have access to the full text, ...

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Mind Hacks — Before yesterday

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Psychiatric tales

Darryl Cunningham draws amazing comics about psychiatry and mental illness, drawn from his time working as a student nurse on psychiatric wards. His comic strip Psychiatric Tales has been regularly appearing online and he's just posted the amazing and heartfelt last chapter along with an announc...

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Mind Hacks — Before yesterday

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2009-11-06 Spike activity

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: ...

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Mind Hacks — 4 days ago

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Psychologist says

I've discovered that if you search for "says psychologist" on Google, you get a giant avalanche of wtf. I encourage you to try it for yourself, but here are a few of the highlights, all taken from headlines of news stories. Twitter makes you dumb, says psychologist Boys have it worse...

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Mind Hacks — 5 days ago