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The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks
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Teasing 10 threads from VilayanurRamachandran’s…
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Thread 1:
The implications for neuroplasticity are staggering. They suggest that brain maps can change, sometimes with astonishing rapidity.
(pg. 31)
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The reason for foot fetishes is quite simple. In the brain neurons that control the feet are located directly adjacent to the areas that control the genitalia. Some wires cross over.(pg. 36)
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Thread 3: Pain itself is an illusion – constructed entirely in your brain like any other sensory experience. Using one illusion to erase another doesn’t seem very surprising after all.(pg. 58)
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As Charles Darwin pointed out, if one sees something apparently maladaptive in biology, the look more deeply, because there is often a hidden agenda.(pg. 133)
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To the brain, any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all.
(pg. 135)
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In Cotard’s Syndrome, patients assert that they are dead. It may be that all the sensory networks are disconnected from the limbic system, leading to a com- plete lack of emotional contact with the world.(pg. 167)
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The Fregoli Syndrome, in which a patient keeps seeing the same person everywhere, may be responsible for racism. A single unpleasant episode with one member of a race is inappro- priately generalized to all members. (pg. 171)
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One clear conclusion that emerges from research is that there are circuits in the human brain involved in religious experience, and these become hyperactive in some people.(pg. 188)
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Most scientists are bricklayers, not architects; they are happy simply adding another stone to the cathedral.
(pg. 222)
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After extensive training in Western medi- cine and more than 30 years of research on neurological patients, I have come to realize that the notion of a single, unified self may be an illusion.(pg. 227)
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