Comments on: Walking the line

By: Hero

Hero — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:33:14 +0000

I found this blog through a Google image search for Wellstar Behavioral Health. I thought the picture looked very much like a corridor of that mental hospital.

By: Anibal

Anibal — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:23:53 +0000

I can¬¥t remeber where or which author, i presumably read it in the volume “Brain and Space” edited by OUP, in which a study shows how the assymetrical discrepancies between the mesolimbic dopamine area present in the two hemispheres of schizophrenic patients can be reflected in the way those patients when walking turn to the right instead to turn to the left (measures by a rotameter).
In other words depending of which hemisphere is depleted of dopamine from which hemisphere is not, people tend to rotate (more preferentially) when walking toward the left or the right. It was a joy of pleasure for me to read this kind of study because in some way it allows to predict and even to model the tendencies of certain patterns of locomotion that everybody have, due to habituation or organization of our associated motor areas in our brains, which in psychotic patients are more characteristic.

By: kiume

kiume — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:44:43 +0000

Doubly fantasic. I hope you’ll write it up too. “…an exhibition without objects and an experiment without data.” And an article without references? Or?

By: secondchancetolive

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