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Strange Cases

  1. The Woman Who Literally Couldn’t Stop CryingThe tears kept on coming even when she wasn’t sad.
    By Cari Romm
  2. The Man Who Believed His Mind Was Being Controlled Through His ToothHe told doctors his brothers had planted a device in his mouth after a root canal, and were using it to make him their puppet.
    By Cari Romm
  3. An Odd Disorder Convinced This Man That All Strangers Were His Crush in DisguisePeople with Fregoli syndrome believe that new faces are familiar ones playing a trick.
    By Stephanie Bucklin
  4. The Woman Who Was Allergic to Her HusbandJust his presence in her room could trigger a life-threatening reaction.
    By Cari Romm
  5. The Man Who Was Pretty Convinced the News Was a RerunThis sounds about right.
    By Melissa Dahl
  6. The Boy Who Woke Up From a Coma Speaking a Whole New LanguageRueben Nsemoh knew only a few words of Spanish — until a head injury made him fluent.
    By Cari Romm
  7. The Woman Who Forgot How to Move When She Closed Her EyesThe case may have helped scientists find a gene that causes clumsiness.
    By Cari Romm
  8. science of us
    The Man Who Woke Up One Morning and Forgot How to ReadA strange case that settled a long, contentious debate about the brain.
    By Cari Romm
  9. The Woman Who Lost Her Sense of ‘Mine’A case study sheds new light on the link between your stuff and your sense of self.
    By Melissa Dahl
  10. The Man Who Woke Up From a Coma With Memories of Another Person’s LifeHe thought his girlfriend was pregnant, and that he’d just interviewed for a job at a spy agency. Both were false.
    By Cari Romm
  11. An Amnesiac Artist Is Making Scientists Question What They Know About MemoryShe can’t remember her past, but she still knows musical notes and painting techniques.
    By Cari Romm
  12. How Only Being Able to Use Logic to Make Decisions Destroyed a Man’s Life“To obtain the best results, emotions must be kept out.”
    By Drake Baer
  13. The Man Whose Life Was One Long Case of Déjà VuHe was convinced that everything — from news events to family gatherings — had already happened before.
    By Cari Romm
  14. Sometimes Puns Are a Sign of a Damaged BrainIt’s called Witzelsucht, which translates to “joke addiction.”
    By Melissa Dahl
  15. A Woman Went Under for Plastic Surgery and Woke Up With KleptomaniaHuh.
    By Tanya Basu
  16. strange cases
    A Curious Disorder Convinced This Guy His Cat Was a SpyHe believed his cat had been replaced with an impostor cat. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  17. sleep
    Oh God, There Is Such a Thing As Fatal InsomniaIt’s very, very rare. But still.
    By Melissa Dahl
  18. hallucinations
    David Bowie Is Apparently a Frequent Guest Star in People’s HallucinationsAccording to the medical literature. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  19. strange cases
    The Pastor Whose ‘Excessive Piety’ Was Caused by His Atrophying BrainAn unusual case of pathological religiosity.
    By Melissa Dahl
  20. strange cases
    This Blind Woman Had 10 Personalities, and Some of Them Could See A case of psychogenic blindness. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  21. strange cases
    The 25-Year-Old With Sudoku-Induced SeizuresAfter a skiing accident. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  22. strange cases
    The Man Who Saw an Impostor in the MirrorBut it was the oddest thing: The man looked just like him.
    By Melissa Dahl
  23. the brain
    Remembering 7 of Oliver Sacks’s Most Fascinating Case StudiesRevisiting the famed neurologist’s work after his death this weekend. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  24. The Woman Who Had Orgasms in Her Left FootOn the first-ever reported case of a condition dubbed “foot orgasm syndrome.” 
    By Melissa Dahl
  25. strange cases
    The Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Tablets in His 20sAt the peak of his use, he estimates that he was taking 25 per day.
    By Melissa Dahl
  26. strange cases
    The Man Who Lost His Memory at the Dentist Ten years later, and he still wakes up every morning thinking it’s the day of his root canal.
    By Melissa Dahl
  27. studies
    The People Who See Monsters in the MirrorSnippets from interviews with individuals who have body dysmorphic disorder. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  28. strange cases
    The Woman Who Was Addicted to PsychicsThe strange case of a “clairvoyance addiction.” 
    By Melissa Dahl
  29. strange cases
    This Man Thought His Family Was Replaced by Evil ClonesIt doesn’t end well.
    By Melissa Dahl
  30. strange cases
    The Woman With No Sense of Personal SpaceA real-life close-talker. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  31. strange cases
    The Corporate Man Who Became Pathologically GenerousKind of like a real-life Ebenezer Scrooge. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  32. case reports
    What Happens When You Drink 16 Glasses of Iced Tea a Day Nothing good! In case you were wondering. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  33. strange cases
    The Man Whose Brain Borrowed Nearby IdentitiesAfter a car crash.
    By Melissa Dahl
  34. strange cases
    The Woman Whose Brain Gave Her a Fake AccentForeign accent syndrome is a rare consequence of a brain injury. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  35. strange cases
    The Strange Case of the Woman Haunted by DragonsImagine dragons, indeed. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  36. strange cases
    The Woman Who Was Attacked by Her Own HandA case report of alien hand syndrome. 
    By Melissa Dahl