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Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience volume 31) If it is the case that “Medicine is fundamentally narrative”, as suggested by Kathleen Montgomery Hunter in Doctors’ Stories. The narrative structure of medical knowledge (Princeton University Press, 1991:5), then the kinship of medical practice with the […]

Physical Comorbidities of Dementia Canonical definitions of dementia, like that enshrined in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV-TR, 2000), acknowledge that the dementia syndrome may be associated inter alia with such features as functional decline, falls, sleep disturbance, and epileptic seizures, as well as the cognitive decline. These physical comorbidities of dementia […]