Stendhal Syndrome: When Art Steals Your Breath
Florence will charm you senseless; people have literally fainted in front of Botticelli and doctors took notes.Read More 
When Words Taste Like Dinner
Some people literally taste words and names; their brain turns a name into bacon and you're left baffled.Read More 
Theyre Blind and Still Swear They See: Anton Syndrome
Imagine someone loses their sight and insists the curtains are open-Anton syndrome is the brain's version of a punchy denial act.Read More 
When Your Partner Is Secretly An Impostor (Your Brain's Fault)
Some brains recognise faces but refuse to believe they're real people, insisting loved ones are cunning fakes - and science has a ghastly explanation.Read More 
When Your Brain Wants To Chew The World (Kluver-Bucy Syndrome)
Okay so picture your brain deciding it is a tiny, horny, supremely curious raccoon and then doing very literal things about it - that is Kluver-Bucy, and it is an actual neurological syndrome.Read More 
Say One Word Until Your Brain Gives Up
Repeat a word enough and your brain will strip it of meaning like a grumpy mechanic pulling a spark plug.Read More 
My Brain Sees Things I Don't (Blindsight Is Loud)
Some people are clinically blind but their brain still snitches on the world, deciding to answer questions about things it insists it did not see.Read More 
They Told Me It Was A Sugar Pill And I Felt Better
Honesty, it seems, does not destroy the placebo; it dresses it up in sensible trousers and sends it to do the job.Read More 
Mirror-touch synesthesia: when someone else's hug is your hug
Some people literally feel other folk being touched - like their skin is an echo - and it wrecks their bus journeys.Read More 