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Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds

TED Talks200900:18:49Creative Commons
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Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, biology, brain, medicine, mind, neurology, psychology, TED2009, 2009

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