
The Divided Brain with Iain McGilchrist, MD
The Nocturnists
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What Are Your Favorite Examples of Disease States?
TMS trans cranial magnetic stimulation can either suppress or enhance the activity of the underlying cortex in an entirely painless process using a magnet. People with left hemisphere strokes understand perfectly well what's going on, but right-hemisphere sufferers are harder to rehabilitate. They often only see the right half of space and will not respond to somebody who is standing to the left of midline. These are not people who are psychotic, but for the moment they totally left touch with reality.
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