CEREBROSPINALECTOMY

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Why does the second hand seem to freeze the moment you glance at a clock?b20260827-24 · The EpileptologistWhy does a song get stuck in your head? An 'earworm' is your auditory cortex looping a catchy fragment — usually one it never got to finish. Your brain hates a cliffhanger.b20260817-25 · The EpileptologistA TIA is a stroke that changed its mindb20260714b-6 · The Stroke NeurologistChili isn't hot. It picks the lock on your heat-and-pain receptor, TRPV1, and your brain files a burn report for a fire that isn't there.b20260806-10 · The Neurosurgeon“Walk heel-to-toe like a sobriety test.” It IS the sobriety test — same midline cerebellum the beer was insulting. That roadside cop was running a neuro exam and had no idea.b20260808-12 · The General NeurologistThe smallest muscle in your body lives inside your ear, and a split second before you speak it braces and turns your own voice down so you don't deafen yourself from the inside. Your body mutes you before you say a word. Some of us could use that upgrade elsewhere.b20260803-18 · The Neuro-radiologistLook at your own eyes in a mirror and flick them side to side. You will never catch them moving. Your brain switches vision off for a few milliseconds during each jump and stitches the gap so smoothly that you're briefly blind a fraction of every second — and never once notice.b20260803-17 · The Epileptologist'Muscle memory' isn't in the muscle at all. Ten thousand reps live in your cerebellum and basal ganglia, running the play so your thinking brain gets to sit the bench.b20260726-18 · The Sports NeurologistThere's a clump of about 20,000 neurons just above your eyes running a clock you cannot turn off.b20260723-4 · The Epileptologist
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