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Stendhal syndrome sends art tourists to a Florence hospital with racing hearts and dizzy spells. One had a heart attack.

Somatoparaphrenia is a rare delusion in which a person denies that one of their limbs, or an entire side of their body, belongs to them -- even when shown direct proof. Patients don't just forget the limb is theirs; they invent an explanation for ...

In 1985, Mariko Aoki wrote to a Japanese magazine about her bookstore bathroom problem. The magazine got so many responses that they named the phenomenon after her.

A University of Zaragoza study scanned 100 young adults and found authoritarians have reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning.