“Like many patients that I’ve seen before and after her, her metaphors for her illness were vertical. She was trapped inside a hole, a void. She had fallen into it. Others would talk about caves; about force fields that pushed them down into something. I hadn’t realized it then, but listening to the metaphors was absolutely vital. It was the metaphors that allowed me to track whether a patient was responding or not.” To position the electrode accurately into BA25, the neurosurgeon collaborating with Mayberg, Andres Lozano, had to put a frame around the patient’s head (the frame acts like a
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