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The Official Friday Silliness Thread Explores Creepy Brain Stimulations (Did you see that???)
Reuters ^
| September 22, 2006
| Sully777
Posted on 09/22/2006 1:00:00 AM PDT by sully777
LONDON (Reuters) - Stimulating a certain area of the brain can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when no one is, scientists said Wednesday. Swiss researchers made the discovery while evaluating a young woman for surgery to treat epilepsy...When they electrically stimulated the left temporoparietal junction in her brain, which is linked to self-other distinction and self-processing, she thought someone was standing behind her. If they repeated the stimulus while she leaned forward and grabbed her knees she had an unpleasant sensation that the shadowy figure was embracing her..."Our findings may be a step toward understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control," said Olaf Blanke, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in the journal Nature...
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To: sully777
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posted on
09/22/2006 12:49:59 PM PDT
by
Auntbee
(I have become comfortably numb.)
To: sully777
To: sully777
ROTFLMAO!!!
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posted on
09/22/2006 12:52:46 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: diamond6; Millee
Welcome to Murphy's Pub
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posted on
09/22/2006 12:53:27 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: r-q-tek86
Truency?
No soup for you.
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posted on
09/22/2006 12:56:55 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
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posted on
09/22/2006 12:57:07 PM PDT
by
Millee
(A joke then, a joke N.O.W.)
To: r-q-tek86
LOL This is exactly what I do at night!
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posted on
09/22/2006 12:58:36 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: BJClinton
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posted on
09/22/2006 12:59:11 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
To: sully777
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:00:02 PM PDT
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CJ Wolf
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:04:15 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: EX52D
Good afternoon EX52D
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:06:12 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: fireforeffect
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:08:48 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: llevrok
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:09:24 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
I know... we sit around and watch the security camera footage and laugh our a$$es off...
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:09:39 PM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
(Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
To: CJ Wolf
275
posted on
09/22/2006 1:11:14 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: r-q-tek86
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:15:43 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
Neither can I...
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:18:00 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(Tagline wanted...inquire within)
To: sully777
I'm out, Sully. Thanks for the fun.
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:20:54 PM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
(Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
To: sully777
To: Auntbee
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:21:45 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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