I heard a replay yesterday of a very interesting episode of Radiolab, all on brain/body issues.
While the story on jet fighter pilots blacking out under high G forces and being dissociated from themselves was fascinating, as was a story on a Dr. figuring out how to use a mirror to treat a patient’s perception of pain in a limb that had long ago been amputated, the story that stuck out for me was on Ian Waterman, a man who, due to a virus affecting his nervous system, lost all proprioception when he was 19.
Listen to the story here:
And watch a clip from a 1998 documentary on him.
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