Discovering the Brain’s Ghoulish Glitches by SciFri published on 2015-10-30T21:14:24Z When the brain suffers certain kinds of damage, the results can resemble something out of a B-horror flick. Consider Cotard’s syndrome (sometimes called “walking dead syndrome”), where the sufferer believes—against all available evidence—that they are actually dead. Or how about “alien hand syndrome,” where a patient’s hand goes rogue, acting against its owner’s wishes? Writer Sam Kean joins Ira to talk about the science behind some of the brain’s most ghoulish glitches, and what they can teach us about how healthy brains operate. Genre Science