A Strange Nerve Disorder Causes People to Shed Crocodile Tears
Crocodiles were said to shed tears while consuming their victims, expressing remorse while happily committing the crime. In 1928, a Russian neuropathologist described incidents of “crocodile tears” among human beings. People, for some reason, wept while eating. Why? Bell’s palsy is a traumatic, and still slightly mysterious, form of facial paralysis. Suddenly one half of…
