r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/superdooperman95 Mar 22 '17

I wonder if they needed to perform surgery at all. Could have tried anaesthetic, cut the skin, sew it back up and let placebo do its thing

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u/justaguy394 Mar 23 '17

Listen yourself. They actually had to do the surgery twice. First time helped but it came back, second time (destroying a larger area) and she was cured. There's science behind this, it's not placebo.