How do you pronounce “nootropic” anyway? The term nootropic comes from two Greek words: nous, meaning mind or intelligence, and tropikos, meaning turning or changing. (That means that nootropic roughly translates to “mind-changing.”) Noo- sounds like “new,” and -tropic would rhyme with...
Blanke, using well-controlled bodily stimulations, demonstrated that sensorimotor conflicts (that is, signals that are spatially and temporally incompatible with physical self-touch) are sufficient to induce the FoP in healthy volunteers. These conflicts were produced by manipulating different localized neu...