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You're gonna rot in hell for that. Sorry. We can't
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quote you on that one.
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What would happen if we just told the truth? Welcome
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to TruthWorks, where we dig into the nitty gritty of leadership and work. And what needs to change. I'm Jessica
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Neal. And I'm Patti McCord. Our journey together started in HR, but trust us, it's evolved into something wild, honest, and well, a bit rebellious.
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So throw out the handbook. We're here to redefine rules to work for us, not against us. Let's dive into another episode.
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Okay, everyone, welcome to another episode of TruthWorks. I'm here with Patti McCord, of course. Hello. And I'm Jessica Neal. And today we have a fascinating guest. I'm very, very, very, very excited to talk to him. His name is Richard Saitoic. Richard is a researcher, and I guess we would call you a pioneer on topic that I don't know much about, but you're going to tell us a ton about synesthesia. Did I say that correctly? You did.
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Yes. Anesthesia, no sensation. Synesthesia, coupled sensations. Lots of. Yeah.
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Got it. And so you're a professor of neurology at George Washington University. You're the author of Synesthesia and then the man who tasted shapes. But tell us a little bit about you, Synesthesia, and then let's get into the screens. Well,
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I'm a professor of neurology at George Washington University, and my interest has always been in what are called higher cortical functions, that is memory, intellect, etc. When I was training in neurology in the 1970s, nobody cared about Alzheimer's disease. Nobody cared about aphasia, the loss of language. I actually wrote a paper called Aphasia and Maurice Ravel, the famous French composer, suddenly had a stroke and could no longer compose, but he could critique what he was hearing. And that paper won awards as well. But that labeled me as philosophically minded, because back then, you know, neurology was all about multiple sclerosis and reflexes and pinpricks and all that. And of course, now, you know, in the sweep of time, things have really changed. And so everybody's sort of come up to where I was always interested in.
