![]() ![]() There was a case more recently in which a patient was given a PET scan in 2013. That was the year in which psychiatrist Jules Cotard, to whom the disease owes its current name, presented the case of a patient who claimed she had “ no brain, nerves, chest, or entrails, and was just skin and bone” and maintained “ that neither God or the devil existed, and she did not need food, for she was eternal and would live forever“. This condition was originally known as “The Delirium of Negation” and the first record on which dates back to 1880. In 2013, a team of researchers, formed among others by Adam Zemar (Professor of Cognitive Neurology at the University of Exeter Medical School) and Steven Laueys of the University of Liege (Belgium), performed the first PET scan on a patient with Cotard’s syndrome (DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.03.003). To envisage it, sometimes neurologists, who are researching more and more, have no choice but to go to brain banks, such as Harvard Brain and Tissue Resource Center, which sends about six thousand samples of brain tissue from healthy people or individuals with mental or physical illnesses in the form of a square centimeter of the requested region to researchers all over the planet and is hardly struggling to cope with demand. Of course, the astonished gaze of those who witnessed the accident will be forever fixed on the use of the most archaic notion, never as present as on that day, in an etymological sense, the brain as “leading the head.”Īnd so, in bizarre mayhem surprises parade by, one after another, including psychological and philosophical ones. He not only didn’t die, but survived with his brain intact, which shows that the skull is, among other things, a large container, which might seem like bad taste if it were not because it opens the door to the possibility of conceiving brain activity outside oneself. ![]() That man always seemed to have his head screwed on, until, during that fatal traffic accident, his skull separated from his spine. ![]()
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