[neverdem]

No new hips or knees for fat patients (UK)

Mildly Depressed People More Perceptive Than Others

This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis

William Duke

Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
SEEING RED Dr. Amir Raz, rear, and Miguel Moeno demonstrate the hypnosis test.

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[neverdem]

Zucherman said he invented the device in 1997 after watching a patient who received a successful laminectomy become mentally disabled - he couldn't remember where he was moment to moment - because of the full anesthesia used.

How often does that occur with general anesthesia, or is full anesthesia different from general anesthesia, and what is the term for it besides amnesia?

[phantomworker]

These are some really good articles. Thanks! My undergraduate degree is in psych, so I love this stuff.

I guess we're all sort of arm chair psychologists anyway.

[phantomworker]

This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis: The probe, called the Stroop test, presents words in block letters in the colors red, blue, green and yellow. The subject has to press a button identifying the color of the letters. The difficulty is that sometimes the word RED is colored green. Or the word YELLOW is colored blue.

Remember the Stroop test? That was fun. It says a lot about perception.