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**** To be precise, they discovered that there was a one-to-one correspondence between mental states and brain states, meaning there was no possibility of evidence for a soul or spirit. Current neurology says it's a good bet this is true for humans, too...
**** That assumes anyone thinks that the soul affects one's mind independent of one's brain.
* As mentioned above, a [[Cthulhu Mythos]] protagonist protagonist who ''isn't'' [[Body Horror|transformed into something... not nice]] or dead at the end of the story usually suffers this trope.
** In the original [[H.P. Lovecraft]] stories, outright madness was not as common as in later Mythos fiction. Examples from Lovecraft's stories include:
** Occurs on a global scale in Lovecraft's short story ''Nyarlathotep'', which tells of one man {{spoiler|(although he's really a messenger for the god of chaos)}} revealing such cosmic secrets that {{spoiler|entire cities are driven mad and civilisation collapses}}.▼
*** The nameless narrator of "Dagon".
*** Some of Johansen's shipmates in "The Call of Cthulhu".
*** Young Danforth in ''At the Mountains of Madness''.
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* In William Tenn's story ''Firewater'', humanity is being observed by aliens that appear to have god-like powers, and anyone who tries too hard to understand them goes insane. {{spoiler|Near the end, it's revealed that the aliens have a similar problem with understanding humans.}}
* ''The Bishop Murder Case'': Philo Vance posits that someone went mad from studying quantum psychics.
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* In ''[[Burying the Shadow]]'' any attempt by a [[Dream Weaver|soulscaper]] to heal an [[Our Angels Are Different|eloim]]'s mind results in the soulscaper going stark raving mad.
* [[The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling]]: Let’s just say that Jack’s study of his student’s perpetual motion machine don’t make him the... most stable of individuals.
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