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When a patient afflicted with schizophrenia hears inner voices something is taking place inside the brain that prevents the individual from perceiving real voices. A simple electronic application may help the patient learn to shift focus. Via Dimitris Agorastos 
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[Researchers] asked the volunteers to look at images of people or animals while their brains were scanned using functional MRI, then asked the volunteers to close their eyes and imagine they were still viewing the image. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found that neural activity in the primary visual cortex dropped off when volunteers imagined seeing the image rather than actually viewing it.
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As neurologist V.S. Ramachandran writes in his book The Tell-Tale Brain,"Even though our picture of the world seems coherent and unified, it actually emerges from the activity those thirty (or more) different visual areas in the cortex, each of which mediates multiple subtle functions." Watch the video
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So interesting how the mind works, we are coming so close to discovering the ilnesses of the mind, and how to prevent it. Read on! #Schizophrenia