Woman’s Bizarre Talent Helps Doctors Diagnose Neurological Disorder

Translating the Sensation Into Images

Joy described what she pictured when exposed to the scent: "It's like a cream-colored ooze," she said. "And brown, there is brown." Eventually, Joy was asked to depict her perceptions. She drew exactly what she saw...

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The More You Know

  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.
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