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Phantoms in the Brain

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The article was published on 1998-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 340 citations till now.

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Humor appreciation deficit in schizophrenia: the relevance of basic neurocognitive functioning.

TL;DR: The relationship found between the appreciation of captionless cartoons involved an incongruous detail and performance on a broad neuropsychological battery suggested that the deficit in humor appreciation in schizophrenia could be attributed to impairment in more basic neurocognitive domains, namely, selective and sustained attention as well as phonological word fluency.
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Tail-docking influences on behavioral, immunological, and endocrine responses in dairy heifers.

TL;DR: The initial banding procedure did not alter heifer physiology and altered only eating behavior, but the cutting of the tail (docking) increased haptoglobin in response to the tissue damage and returned eating behavior to baseline.
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Characterising phantom limb phenomena in upper limb amputees

TL;DR: It is suggested that detailed individual ‘profiling’ of phantom experiences is important and would provide an accurate way of representing amputees’ anomalous perceptions and alert health professionals to the presence, variety and extent of PLP following amputation.
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Can vestibular caloric stimulation be used to treat Dejerine-Roussy Syndrome?

TL;DR: It is hypothesised that cold vestibular caloric stimulation will be effective in treating Dejerine-Roussy Syndrome and this will be the first time in clinical neurology that a chronic disorder, long considered refractory to treatment, is relieved by a simple non-invasive procedure.