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Do-it-yourself brain surgery
More News of the Weird
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 18:19:20 EDT
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@quake.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Do-it-yourself brain surgery
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Don't try this one at home, kids.
"The _British Journal of Psychiatry_ reported in 1988 that a Candian
teenager who shot himself in the mouth in a suicide attempt three
years earlier had actually torn apart the section of his brain
responsible for his remarkable compulsion to wash his hands as many
as 100 times a day - a compulsion that had led to his suicide attempt
in the first place. The boy survived, and saw his IQ rise to its
pre-illness level."
