Neuroscience
The Neurocritic would also like to thank Dr. Walterfang for drawing our attention to a terrible new disease afflicting quantitative neuroimaging laboratories around the globe. The sweatshop conditions contributing to this pandemic must end!
- Hearing Music That Isn't There
You've probably been tormented by a catchy song playing over and over in your head. Spare a thought then for those people for whom this phenomenon is taken to the next level: the song or songs sound real and they play round the clock. They have what's...
- Who Replaced All My Things?
Capgras syndrome – in which the patient believes their friends and relatives have been replaced by impersonators – was first described in 1923 by the French psychiatrist J.M.J. Capgras in a paper with J. Reboul-Lachaux. Now Alireza Nejad and Khatereh...
- Weird Psychiatric Disorder Day
This morning's brief movie capsule didn't explain either delusional parasitosis or folie à deux. Wikipedia says that Delusional parasitosis is a form of psychosis in which sufferers hold a delusional belief they are infested with parasites.Mind...
- Neurobiological Correlates Of Melbourne-sydney Rivalry
You think I made this up? I can't find the article online yet, but here's the abstract. Velakoulis D, Fornito A, Walterfang M, Malhi G, Yucel M, Pantelis C. (2007). A tale of two cities: a neuroimaging investigation of Melbourne-Sydney rivalry...
- Functional Neuroimaging, Alzheimer Disease, Neuropsychology Function, And The Hippocampus
One of many recent news article over the past year about the application of functional neuroimaging technologies, this time in Wisconsin and with specific concern about the hippocampus and the hippocampal region and its relation to neuropsychological...
Neuroscience
Lesionnaire's Syndrome
The Neurocritic would also like to thank Dr. Walterfang for drawing our attention to a terrible new disease afflicting quantitative neuroimaging laboratories around the globe. The sweatshop conditions contributing to this pandemic must end!
"Lesionnaire's syndrome"Read the Diagnostic criteria to see if you, too, might be affected. As a cautionary tale, read the Case report of a 38-year-old psychiatrist who spent hundreds of hours tracing hippocampal volumes on MRI scans.
Dennis Velakoulis, Christos Pantelis and Mark Walterfang
MJA 2005; 183 (11/12): 679.
The explosion in psychiatric neuroimaging research has led to the establishment of stressful and dark neuroimaging laboratories in which young researchers sweat in front of computer monitors performing laborious and tedious imaging analysis. These conditions have contributed to the development of a new psychiatric syndrome, described below.
- Hearing Music That Isn't There
You've probably been tormented by a catchy song playing over and over in your head. Spare a thought then for those people for whom this phenomenon is taken to the next level: the song or songs sound real and they play round the clock. They have what's...
- Who Replaced All My Things?
Capgras syndrome – in which the patient believes their friends and relatives have been replaced by impersonators – was first described in 1923 by the French psychiatrist J.M.J. Capgras in a paper with J. Reboul-Lachaux. Now Alireza Nejad and Khatereh...
- Weird Psychiatric Disorder Day
This morning's brief movie capsule didn't explain either delusional parasitosis or folie à deux. Wikipedia says that Delusional parasitosis is a form of psychosis in which sufferers hold a delusional belief they are infested with parasites.Mind...
- Neurobiological Correlates Of Melbourne-sydney Rivalry
You think I made this up? I can't find the article online yet, but here's the abstract. Velakoulis D, Fornito A, Walterfang M, Malhi G, Yucel M, Pantelis C. (2007). A tale of two cities: a neuroimaging investigation of Melbourne-Sydney rivalry...
- Functional Neuroimaging, Alzheimer Disease, Neuropsychology Function, And The Hippocampus
One of many recent news article over the past year about the application of functional neuroimaging technologies, this time in Wisconsin and with specific concern about the hippocampus and the hippocampal region and its relation to neuropsychological...