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Hearing words that evoke visions of color or seeing letters that have gender are just a few examples of experiencing synesthesia. Jessica Johnson investigates this tangling of the senses.

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Colliding Senses: Life With Synesthesia

Recalling skills often depends on returning to your state of mind — or environment — where you first learned it.

The Right State of Mind

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Historically associated with combat veterans, PTSD symptoms occur in people with vastly different experiences, including those whose jobs rarely take them away from a desk.

The Broad Reach of PTSD

If you were blind since birth and learned how to identify objects by your sense of touch, could you distinguish those objects by sight alone if your vision was suddenly restored?
This episode of Inner Cosmos was written and produced by Jessica P. Johnson and edited by Lisa Chiu and Juliet M. Beverly.

Music and theme song by Kristina Reznikov.

Hosted by Richard Wingate, Editor-in-Chief of BrainFacts.org and Head of Anatomy at King’s College London.

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