When we think about starvation, we tend to picture the body: weight loss, weakness, feeling cold, a slowing heart. But starvation also happens in the brain. And that matters, because some of the most confusing features of prolonged...read more
A teenager cuts her sandwich into exactly eight pieces before she can eat it. Another patient checks the nutrition label on a food again and again, even though she already knows what it says. Someone else eats the same...read more