{"id":228,"date":"2006-09-21T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2006-09-23T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T17:31:47","slug":"the-tin-foil-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"The Tin Foil Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reuters.myway.com\/article\/20060921\/2006-09-21T120722Z_01_L1922311_RTRIDST_0_ODD-SCIENCE-ILLUSION-DC.html\">This<\/a> from Swiss researchers, so you know it&#8217;s accurate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Stimulating a certain area of the brain can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when no one is, scientists said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss researchers made the discovery while evaluating a young woman for surgery to treat epilepsy. They believe their finding could help explain feelings such as paranoia which afflict patients suffering from schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>When they electrically stimulated the left temporoparietal junction in her brain, which is linked to self-other distinction and self-processing, she thought someone was standing behind her.<\/p>\n<p>If they repeated the stimulus while she leaned forward and grabbed her knees she had an unpleasant sensation that the shadowy figure was embracing her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings may be a step toward understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control,&#8221; said Olaf Blanke, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in the journal Nature.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <strong>left<\/strong> side of the brain. Hmmmmmmmm. We can only hope that someday appropriate medication will help.<\/p>\n<p>[Edit History]<\/p>\n<p>2006.09.23<\/p>\n<p>Added link to original article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from Swiss researchers, so you know it&#8217;s accurate: Stimulating a certain area of the brain can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when no one is, scientists said Wednesday. Swiss researchers made the discovery while evaluating a young woman for surgery to treat epilepsy. They believe their finding could help explain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,21,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}