Tag: stroke
What Epilepsy Can Teach About the Mind
I have treated thousands of patients with epilepsy. Seizures can result in a variety of behaviors and emotions. But let me tell you what they don’t do.
Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts
The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds.
Do We Need Language to Think?
For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself.
Do We Need the Right Half of the Brain?
A 29-year-old woman, CB, with no neurological or psychiatric history had a stroke, possibly due to medication issues.
Louis Pasteur, in Memoriam
“There is a time in every man’s life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.”