340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Role of Dopamine in Parkinson's Disorder
There's just a range of at least nations that can occur in Parkinson's often people don't realize. They tend to get grouped with something called passage hallucinations which is the vague sense of somebody going by out of the corner of your eye. But there's evidence that these two things together affect potentially as many as 50% of people with Parkinson's. And if you have them then you're also more likely to get more complex visual hallucinations say further down the line as well. It's an emerging field people are kind of studying this more and more, trying to work out the brain networks that are involved in when people have these presence experiences.
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