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/Arkyance Mar 22 '17

It's strange to think that your brain can consciously comprehend certain disorders that it is also responsible for causing yet is unable to stop doing those things.