Brain of the Beholder.

• Autores: Charles Q. Choi
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 298, Nº. 2, 2008, págs. 29-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article reports on research into why some people suffer from body dysmorphic disorder seeing themselves as ugly. Sufferers often have repeated plastic surgery to fix the imagined flaw and have an increased risk of suicide. Testing on subjects in California showed they used the left side of the brain when viewing pictures of faces more often than other people do.