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** Dr. Ramachandran's lecture entitled, “A journey to the center of your mind” at the Technology Education and Design Conference (TED Talk):

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Dr Ramachandran discusses an especially curious phenomenon called Capgras Syndrome, which can occur as a result of abrupt changes in axonal structure and function due to a sustained injury. When the axonal pathway from the area of the brain where faces are processed in the brain, the fusiform gyrus, is severed from the amygdala, the area where emotion is processed, it can result in visual delusions called Capgras Delusions. Capgras delusions cause an individual to identify a person, with whom they were previously acquainted, as an identical imposter. This seemingly odd delusion occurs because the damaged axonal pathway inhibits the individual’s capacity to render the emotional response previously incited by that particular stimulus