10 Incredible Strange Brain Disorders
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BRAIN DISORDERS
TRANSVERSE MYELITIS- Transverse myelitis, also known as TM is a neurologic syndrome caused by inflammation of gray and white matter of the spinal cord.
10 INCREDIBLY STRANGE BRAIN DISORDERS
You're used to relying on your brain. Whatever else happens, your personal lump of gray matter will take in the world, and respond to it in a fluid and predictable way. But actually, whatever your brain does is made up of many successive mental steps — and if just one of those steps fails, you'll find yourself behaving very differently.
Here are 10 weird and highly specific brain conditions, and what they each show us about the human brain.
10. ASTASIA-ABASIA PATIENTS ARE ALWAYS ON THE VERGE OF FALLING
Astasia-Abasia is also known as Blocq's Disease, after Paul Blocq, the French doctor who first described it. It's the inability to stand or walk properly, but there's more to it. At first, a person with this condition appears very drunk. Patients lurch when they try to stand or walk. Patients seem dangerous to themselves. They overbalance extravagantly, always catching themselves at the last moment. But that's the condition — they always catch themselves.
People with Blocq's Disease almost never hurt themselves. They only fall when a doctor, a loved one, or a soft place on the ground is available. Often this condition is in response to stress. The most famous case of this happened in the 1960s, when not one but two cadets at West Point came down with the condition, doctors believe as a response to the pressure of training at the prestigious school.
9. ANOSOGNIA PATIENTS ARE UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE THEIR OWN INJURIES
Anosognia arises in conjunction with other injuries — generally strokes and blindness. People who have lost the ability to control one half of their body will say that they just don't want to move that part of their body. They'll say that that half of the body is really working normally, after all. When
BRAIN DISORDERS
TRANSVERSE MYELITIS- Transverse myelitis, also known as TM is a neurologic syndrome caused by inflammation of gray and white matter of the spinal cord.
10 INCREDIBLY STRANGE BRAIN DISORDERS
You're used to relying on your brain. Whatever else happens, your personal lump of gray matter will take in the world, and respond to it in a fluid and predictable way. But actually, whatever your brain does is made up of many successive mental steps — and if just one of those steps fails, you'll find yourself behaving very differently.
Here are 10 weird and highly specific brain conditions, and what they each show us about the human brain.
10. ASTASIA-ABASIA PATIENTS ARE ALWAYS ON THE VERGE OF FALLING
Astasia-Abasia is also known as Blocq's Disease, after Paul Blocq, the French doctor who first described it. It's the inability to stand or walk properly, but there's more to it. At first, a person with this condition appears very drunk. Patients lurch when they try to stand or walk. Patients seem dangerous to themselves. They overbalance extravagantly, always catching themselves at the last moment. But that's the condition — they always catch themselves.
People with Blocq's Disease almost never hurt themselves. They only fall when a doctor, a loved one, or a soft place on the ground is available. Often this condition is in response to stress. The most famous case of this happened in the 1960s, when not one but two cadets at West Point came down with the condition, doctors believe as a response to the pressure of training at the prestigious school.
9. ANOSOGNIA PATIENTS ARE UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE THEIR OWN INJURIES
Anosognia arises in conjunction with other injuries — generally strokes and blindness. People who have lost the ability to control one half of their body will say that they just don't want to move that part of their body. They'll say that that half of the body is really working normally, after all. When