Feeling You're Being Followed? It's All In Your Head.
Ever feel that you're being shadowed? The paranoia and feeling of being followed may just be your brain misfiring:
The paper, published in the British journal Nature, describes the case of a 22-year-old woman with no history of psychiatric problems who was being evaluated for treatment of epilepsy. When a region of her brain called the left temporoparietal junction was electrically stimulated, the woman described encounters with a ‘shadow person' who mimicked her bodily movements.
