Comments on: A Fold in the Brain is Linked to Keeping Reality and Imagination Separate, Study Finds

By: Joseph Hertzlinger

Joseph Hertzlinger — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:43:06 +0000

What part of the brain is responsible for taking a study with a sample size of 53 seriously?

By: Susan Durham

Susan Durham — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:21:40 +0000

I absolutely concur that sociopathic people re-create scenes that they perhaps disremember (not saying whether on purpose or not), rather than purposely making up stuff. This affects all of us MUCH more drastically than people who are hallucinating, particularly where the person is a testifying cop (not that ALL cops are sociopathic, but this may account for the profusion of “lies” that may really be re-creations from objective evidence)

By: Greg for President

Greg for President — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:09:19 +0000

Interesting. Let’s say I’m a lawyer and I have to cross examine a witness that doesn’t seem credible. Can I bring in a MRI scanner to see if they have this fold? Without the fold, may I assume they likely don’t remember the actual events, they just made them up the events that could have happend.

By: jsnydersachs

jsnydersachs — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:17:33 +0000

I love this format–your six headings are both priceless and practical!

By: Debiprasad Ghosh

Debiprasad Ghosh — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:13:48 +0000

So, Like Blood Group, Now we have Brain Group.

L – Fold in left brain
R- Fold in Right brain
LR- folds in both left and right brain
O- No fold

Fn Factor
+ interested in fiction
- Not interested in fiction

LR+ is preferred choice

By: John A.

John A. — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:01:01 +0000

I wonder if there will be studies looking into this structure in relation to a patient’s prognosis with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. Would it possibly lend greater resistance to dementia, or is this structure in particular affected?

By: sratdust

sratdust — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:45:34 +0000

Re: Michael Berry

Our brains are not “the source of everything we perceive”.. that’s a typical mistake.. we perceive things that are external. Your fold may not be very pronounced.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:39:41 +0000

@Monado, FCD: “candle the brains?” awesome.

So the only thing separating me from a schizophrenic is because I believe the voices in my head are me thinking?

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:57:16 +0000

Scizophrenia is thought to be caused by a virus. Does this virus change brain development?

By: Geack

Geack — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:56:52 +0000

@sharon –

The fold is a permanent structure in the brain – no one is observing any changes in it at all. They’re studying whether it presence or absence has any impact on how our brains process information.

By: Monado, FCD

Monado, FCD — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:26:21 +0000

Now to see if conspiracy theorists have a small PCS or people with no interest in fiction have a large one. In fact, Conservative Authoritarian personalities have been identified as refusing to change their minds when confronted with contrary evidence that they are wrong: perhaps they mistake their confabulations for reality. It might also be interesting to candle the brains of a few hundred religious faithful vs. rational skeptics.

By: Montana

Montana — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:34:47 +0000

“Of the 53 people selected for the study…” makes me shudder at their findings.

By: Paapa Pancho

Paapa Pancho — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:00:47 +0000

Is there any part of the brain that has not been associated with schizophrenia?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:53:03 +0000

And yet we drug the hell out of it and shock it with EcT…

By: Michael Berry

Michael Berry — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:35:42 +0000

Brain science is so fascinating. Our brains are the source of everything we perceive, believe, experience and conceive (no rhyming intended!) and yet we know relatively little about the inner workings of this fantastic, organic machine.

I recently read On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and although a lot of the text was way over my head (it is neuroscience, after all), I experienced a lot of “Wow!” moments while reading his explanations and examples on why we think what we think and how we perceive our realities. It’s both impressive and humbling to discover that the majority of our actions are not actions at all but rather re-actions to patterns we don’t pay conscious attention to and have adapted to through countless past experiences with the world around us.

It’s a very enlightening book which I recommend to just about everyone. Don’t let the subject matter scare you off–the book is very approachable even for the least intelligent readers (I include myself in this group…in relation to neuroscience, anyway).

By: Rob Hurley

Rob Hurley — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:24:15 +0000

I’m curious to know, not about the extreme case of schizophrenia, but rather about more quotidian “disorders”, people with selective memory, and people who are congenital liars. These affect society as a whole much more than readily identified psychological disorders such as schizophrenia.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:12:29 +0000

Does the fold’s presence (or lack of a presence) have a relationship to creativity/imagination/visualization?

By: Pat Thompson

Pat Thompson — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:57:05 +0000

The image on the right shows SWELLING (ie, infection) which has displaced areas of that brain, PREVENTING expected cross-sections of the scan to be revealed at specific locations. The endotoxins of chronic or congenital VD infections in the bonemarrow, blood, and connective tissue are neurotoxic and devastating to memory.

By: Sharon Coburn

Sharon Coburn — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:27:00 +0000

I would love to know if anyone has observed any change in the fold while we are dreaming.