Ramachandran is designing new experiments to test whether anosognosia can be overcome by other mental functions. In one preliminary result, he found that an anosognosic patient would acknowledge her paralysis if he injected her left arm with an inert saline solution but told her it was a paralyzing anesthetic. Studying such syndromes, Ramachandran explains, can yield insights into ancient questions about how we obtain knowledge of the world and represent it in our brains. "We call this field 'experimental epistemology,' just to annoy the philosophers," he says.

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1. 1. rambansal 04:17 AM 8/6/10

   I would like to draw attention of Neurologists that the words 'mind' and 'brain' are different from each other. Mind resides in every organic system of the body to regulate its functioning. Thus, the total mind is fragmented into organ. The brain resides in skull and has memory and a faculty of thinking apart from controlling various components of mind in the body.

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