Me and My Shadow.
Ever feel that you are being followed, that someone is ’shadowing’ every move you make?
Well, instead of being a real person, it could, believe it or not, be your ’shadow person’, the result of unusual activity in a specific region of your brain known as the left temporoparietal junction.
According to a study, published in Nature in 2006 (a British science journal), ‘…stimulation of a site on the brain’s left hemisphere prompts the creepy feeling that somebody is close by.’
Focusing on the case of a 22 year old woman with no psychiatric history who was being evaluated for epilepsy treatment, the …read more
