Harvard Professor Teaches Class On Zombies

CAMBRIDGE (CBS) - Zombies have taken over the screen and our imagination. Halloween even brings them to the streets.

One man says we can learn things about our minds from the mindless.

Dr. Steven Schlozman is a child psychiatrist and MGH and teaches at Harvard. He has combined his love of the horror genre with medicine for a brainy hobby.

He wrote the "Zombie Autopsies." He lectures across the country about what we can learn from a zombie brain.

For example he held up his hands to walk like a zombie.

"They hold their hands up, otherwise they would fall down, that's here in the cerebellum," said Schlozman. "They're really mad - that's the amygdala."

As a psychiatrist he offers that zombies are engaging to us in other ways.

"That fundamental human question, the way we define humanity comes up in a campy displaced way with zombies," said Schlozman.

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