Looking for varieties of "brain confusion" (like phantom limbs)

[Alfred001]

Are there other phenomena known in neuroscience such as phantom limbs where the brain seems to have a misconception about what is true and it results on psychological or physiological effects?

 

I'm looking for names of these conditions or case studies or anything that I can research.

 

If anyone knows any documentaries on this subject that would be great, too.

[iNow]

Do you mean like delusions? Just about anything can result in a psychosomatic effect on the body itself, including stress, anxiety, and even imagination.

[Alfred001]

Do you mean like delusions? Just about anything can result in a psychosomatic effect on the body itself, including stress, anxiety, and even imagination.

 

No, I don't mean things like stress and anxiety, those things do not involve the brain being "confused."

 

I'm looking for things where the brain thinks something is so and it isn't, but because it thinks it is so it does something - either some physiological effect, or creates some perception (as with the phantom limbs).

 

For ex. if there was a possibility for something to be wrong with the brain in such a way that people didn't feel bad when they lost (either a game, or failed in something in life).

[iNow]

There are lots of things like that. The brain is an amazing place. You might consider exploring things like synethesia, or when pain is interpreted as joy, or when certain rituals and religious teachings lead one to live in a false reality and see things that are not there.

 

You might also research cotards delusion, blindsight, anosognosia, or even capgrass delusion.

 

It's also possible that you're just looking for something like basic psychosis, or potentially pain asymbolia. I really can`t tell. Hopefully these terms give you something to search and a way to go learn more.