The genius is on the left, the lunatic is on the right

Chapter 13 Wife or Hat

When you have a neurological problem, oh, maybe, you would never be able to imagine those scenes without a neurological problem.Brain nerve problems caused by stroke or other reasons sometimes make people unable to distinguish their body parts, and this almost "neurotic" performance always makes ordinary people feel incredible.

However, don't show excessive astonishment and sympathy. Many times, the patient's world is not as lonely and scary as we imagined.In our eyes, they appear abnormal and even pitiful, but perhaps in their eyes, they also cannot understand why we are so "poor".

When Dr. Pigg walks into Dr. Oliver's clinic, everything looks perfectly normal.As a gifted person in both music and composition, Dr. Piguet never hides his love for music from others, even strangers.

Dr. Pigg has a round, chubby face, a smile, and is very friendly.Dr. Oliver fell in love with the Doctor of Music almost in 30 seconds.But what was wrong with him?Why would you walk into a neurologist's office?
"Oh, they all said that there is something wrong with my eyes." Dr. Pig said frankly.

Dr. Oliver observed carefully and found that Dr. Pig was indeed a little strange. They were clearly looking at each other and talking, but Dr. Pig's eyes kept scanning Dr. Oliver's face, jumping from his left eye to his lips, and his eyes kept moving. And full of confusion, as if unable to distinguish these five senses.

"Okay, doctor, please take off the shoe on your left foot, let me do some checks for you."

Dr. Oliver touched the sole of Dr. Pig's foot with a key, but Dr. Pig didn't respond, not even a normal conditioned reflex.Dr. Oliver began to realize what the problem was.

"Okay, doctor, you can put on your shoes now." Dr. Oliver said as he turned to his desk to record his preliminary deduction.

After 2 minutes, he raised his head and was surprised to find that Dr. Pigg did not put on his shoes, but lowered his head, staring at his left foot in a daze.

"Do you need me to help you, Doctor?" Dr. Oliver asked.

"Help me? ... Uh, but what can you help me with?"

"Put on your shoes," replied the doctor.

"Can you call my wife in for me?" Dr. Pigg said shyly.

When Dr. Pig's wife came and sat down next to him, Dr. Oliver noticed that Dr. Pig began to put on his shoes with difficulty. He saw him holding his left foot and kept getting close to the shoe on the side. The action is weird and comical as he keeps trying to keep his feet outside the shoes.

"Honey, this is your foot," said his wife, pointing to Dr. Pig's left foot.

"Oh, but I think this should be my shoe."

It was a difficult process of putting on the shoe, and finally the shoe was properly worn on Dr. Pig's left foot.He stood up, confirmed the time of the next consultation with Dr. Oliver, and then prepared to leave.At this time, another funny scene was staged. Dr. Pigg grabbed his wife's head, and then lifted it up like a hat, trying to put the head on his own head, while his hat was in good condition. placed on the table in front of him.

"Honey, what are you doing?" asked the wife.

"I should put on my hat and leave. Don't forget that I have class in the afternoon." Dr. Pigg replied earnestly. From his expression, it was impossible to tell that he was grabbing his wife on purpose. The head is joking.

His wife sighed helplessly, stood up, handed Dr. Pig's hat to his hand, and then spread her hands towards Dr. Oliver.

This scene made Dr. Oliver decide that for the next diagnosis and treatment, he will visit him in person.

A week later, Dr. Oliver knocked on Dr. Pigg's door.

They talked happily and played and sang a few pieces separately.From this, Dr. Oliver judged that there is no problem in the temporal lobe of Dr. Pig's brain, which is in charge of auditory information. Moreover, in view of the close relationship between music, memory and emotion, it can be inferred that Dr. Pig's music cortex is also very functional. .

Subsequently, Dr. Oliver took out several pictures of the polyhedron.Dr. Pigg smiled when he saw it, and said easily: "Doctor, I think I can recognize these pictures. For example, the picture you are holding now is a dodecahedron, and the next one is a cube. . . . " It appears that Dr. Piguet is perfectly capable of distinguishing abstract shapes clearly.

So, what is the problem?Dr. Oliver suggested that you might as well watch an old movie together.

The movie started playing, and Dr. Oliver turned off the sound, leaving only the shaking pictures and expressive actors. Then, Dr. Oliver began to discuss the heroine in the film with Dr. Pigg.To be sure, this is a well-known female star in the United States, but Dr. Pigg does not seem to know her, and, regarding the plot, Dr. Pigg's comments have nothing to do with the actual content. The reason, Oliver The doctor found that Dr. Piguet was completely unable to judge the expressions of the actors. He couldn't even tell who was who, and he couldn't even tell whether they were male or female.

That's right, Dr. Piggs can't recognize facial features. In his eyes, there are only some simple traits, such as big noses, buck teeth, etc., but he can't combine these information at all. Dr. Oliver also found that when Piggs As the Doctor gazed at their family portrait, he couldn't even recognize himself in the photo.

Dr. Oliver performed a final test and handed Dr. Pigg his glove to tell him what it was.

Dr. Pig took the glove, put it in his hand, stared at the glove with a very strange look, after a long while, he said: "Well, this is a thing with a flat surface, and there are a few small pockets. I don't know if I can say that, it seems to be used to hold things. There are... yes, five small pockets in total."

Dr. Pig's description is very good, but even five-year-old children can blurt out that it is a glove when they see the thing in front of them. Objects are very intuitive to their eyes.However, Dr. Pig has lost this intuitive ability to distinguish. He is lost in a lifeless abstract world. Without a visual self, he cannot present this world realistically.

Dr. Oliver's final diagnosis was that Dr. Pigg's perception and cognition were impaired, and the entire macroscopic system was involved, which is the so-called agnosia.

The brain-burning logic of a genius or a madman
The so-called agnosia refers to the inability to form a connection between the objects we feel and the relevant memory materials in our minds, just like a bridge that has been washed away cannot connect the two sides of the river.When the patient recognizes something, he cannot use ordinary people's specific channels to identify it. He may be able to identify it in other ways, but it is often tortuous and ridiculous.Just like Dr. Pig, he couldn't tell what the thing in front of him was at a glance, and could only piece it together by relying on some local features.And the result of this is that it is often easy to make jokes, and the lips of the donkey are completely wrong.

Dr. Pig's performance is just one of agnosia.In fact, he is not an exception.To people like Dr. Pigg, all faces appear before them as meaningless objects without any pattern of composition.There is nothing wrong with their optic nerves, and they can see things far and near, but they don't know what they are. This feeling is painful no matter who it is.

Our Dr. Pigg, however, did not feel this way.He doesn't even feel like he's "sick."For faces, scenery and objects that cannot be combined, he usually uses his cheerful expression to describe them in one stroke.He doesn't care whether he can put on his shoes and hat correctly, he only cares about whether there is a note in the score of the new work that is not in harmony.

While having dinner with the couple at Dr. Pigg's house, Dr. Oliver noticed that when the food was brought to the table, Dr. Pigg would start humming and eating, either with a knife and fork or just grabbing it with his hands. Fruits, he completed these movements very smoothly, and it didn't look like he couldn't recognize these foods at all.But if at this time, there are doorbells, phone rings, etc. that interfere with his singing, his whole person will change, his eyes will be dull, as if he has completely forgotten that he is eating.He stared at the dining table stupidly, trying to find the connection between these strange things on the table...

According to his wife, if Dr. Pigg could keep humming, he would not have those strange behaviors such as using his head as a hat and putting his feet on shoes.But that doesn't mean his life is completely normal.In fact, every day, Dr. Piguet cannot do without his wife's care.

When he wakes up in the morning, his wife encourages him to start singing with a smile, and then she goes into the bathroom, prepares things for him to wash up, folds them back, helps him find the clothes he will wear that day, spreads them out on the bed, and forms a Humanoid.As long as Dr. Pig's singing is not interrupted, he can do these things smoothly.

In the eyes of others, Dr. Pigg's agnosia has reached a very serious point, and everyone sympathizes with his wife.But Mrs. Pigg never felt that she was unlucky.Every year, Dr. Pig's music and paintings are exhibited at the school, which is Dr. Pig's achievement and the pride of the family.

(End of this chapter)