Monday, September 21, 2009

Now Oliver Sacks Talks About Visual Hallucinations in Blind People

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Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and a famous writer out of New York City, gave the following TED talk about a peculiar condition of some of his patients and what it reveals about our minds. The Charles Bonnett syndrome happens when blind people have lucid visual hallucinations, a phenomenon that fMRI has helped explain on a physical level.

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