Medical / Body.
Documented anomalies of the body — strange but real medical phenomena. 6 case files in the archive.
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The Placebo & Nocebo Effects
The documented, measurable physiological responses to expectation alone. The endogenous-opioid and dopamine mechanisms, open-label placebo studies, and why these are real biology, not imagination.
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Terminal Lucidity
The documented but unexplained return of mental clarity in some dying patients with advanced dementia or severe brain disease. The case reports, the 2009 framing by Michael Nahm, and why current neuroscience cannot account for it.
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Transplant (Cellular) Memory
The claim that organ recipients inherit a donor memories, tastes, or personality. The anecdotes (Claire Sylvia), the absence of any plausible mechanism, and the mundane explanations mainstream science offers.
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Fatal Familial Insomnia
The rare inherited prion disease that destroys the thalamus and the ability to sleep, leading to dementia and death. The PRNP mutation, the Italian family that revealed it, and the sporadic form.
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Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Vivid visual hallucinations in people losing their sight, with full insight the visions are not real. The 1760 origin, the release-hallucination (deafferentation) mechanism, the phantom-limb analogy, and why it is under-diagnosed.
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Stockholm Syndrome
The 1973 Norrmalmstorg siege, the psychiatrist who named the syndrome without ever speaking to the hostages, why it is in no diagnostic manual, and what Kristin Enmark actually said.