Author: Andrew T. Austin

Andrew T. Austin is formerly an NLP master practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, and a nurse with a background in accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery. These days he is the developer of Metaphors of Movement and Integral Eye Movement Therapy and a bit of a nuisance. #NLP #neurolinguisticprogramming #hypnotherapy

Split Brain Patients

From Wikipedia: “The corpus callosum is a structure of the mammalian brain in the longitudinal fissure that connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres. It facilitates communication between the two hemispheres. It is the largest white matter structure in the brain, consisting of 200-250 million contralateral axonal projections. It is a wide, flat bundle of..

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Oliver Sacks – Charles Bonnet Syndrome

"Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome, when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this underreported phenomenon." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOTaXhbqPQ&rel=0 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html From Wikipedia: "Sufferers, who are mentally healthy people with often significant visual loss, have..

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Delusional?

This video clip is interesting, as it is a natural demonstration of what seems to be delusional behaviour. The man speaking starts off relatively normal in his speech and affect but begins to derail as he talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpVdtwDSg9c&rel=0

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