Saturday, March 17, 2007

Feeling You’re Being Followed? It’s All In Your Head.



Ever feel that you’re being shadowed? The paranoia and feeling of being followed may just be your brain misfiring:

The paper, published in the British journal Nature, describes the case of a 22-year-old woman with no history of psychiatric problems who was being evaluated for treatment of epilepsy. When a region of her brain called the left temporoparietal junction was electrically stimulated, the woman described encounters with a ‘shadow person’ who mimicked her bodily movements

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