After his heart stopped beating for 40 minutes, the former lawyer experienced weeks of hallucinations. The visions he experienced during his recovery set him on the path to a new career ...

Jules was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 19. She has seen often-scary hallucinations since she was 14. Treatment has reduced her symptoms, and she's now taking classes at Columbia University. One day ...

The summer of 2008, I was about to begin my senior year at a small public high school. I was one of the top students in my class, a highly competitive athlete, and a horseback rider. I also had a part ...

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. For most of my adult life, I’ve been ...

Marilyn Schneider is an executive secretary at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic where she gets her temperature checked several times a day. When the 57-year-old got home from work March 27, an intense chill ...

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...

In his latest book Hallucinations, neurologist Oliver Sacks collects stories of individuals who can see, hear and smell things that aren't really there—such as strange voices, or collages of ...

Not seeing the left (or right) side can occur with occipital or parietal lobe damage. In my last post, I mentioned how the parietal lobes help to focus attention, and that it is asymmetric. Although ...

Katy Tur — who welcomed son Teddy in April — said her nurses "sent in a full psychiatric team to evaluate" her ("spoiler alert: I was, and still am, sane") Katy Tur has returned to her co-anchor post ...

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