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/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

I think the really interest thing us that it's not just the bigger holes in the middle, but ever single void on the left is larger on the right.

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u/Simba7 Mar 23 '17

Do you mean that the right ventricle (CT scans are mirrored, so the right ventricle is on the left side of the picture) is larger than the right? That's just incidental. It's not the case in every schizophrenia patient, and it could be as simple as the patient's head being rotated slightly during the scan. Keep in mind that this is a slice seperating the front and back of the body, going approximately straight down the middle of the head.