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In this episode, we will be discussing some fascinating changes to the brain: synesthesia, bilingual aphasia, and foreign accent syndrome. These conditions can occur following stroke, traumatic brain injury, coma or even surgery. How would you feel if you woke up from a traumatic event speaking a foreign language? Speaking with a foreign accent? Or feeling colors and hearing music?
Also discussed today: mysterious mass illnesses, PTSD, The Salem Witch Trials, and the Pied Piper of Hamlin.
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Steenburgen
Synesthesia and PTSD
Stroke and Synesthesia
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In this episode, we will be discussing some fascinating changes to the brain: synesthesia, bilingual aphasia, and foreign accent syndrome. These conditions can occur following stroke, traumatic brain injury, coma or even surgery. How would you feel if you woke up from a traumatic event speaking a foreign language? Speaking with a foreign accent? Or feeling colors and hearing music?
Also discussed today: mysterious mass illnesses, PTSD, The Salem Witch Trials, and the Pied Piper of Hamlin.
Links:
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