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Phrenology and methodology, or "playing tennis with the net down"
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Language and memory disorder in the case of Jonathan Swift: considerations on retrospective diagnosis
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Language and memory disorder in the case of Jonathan Swift: considerations on retrospective diagnosis
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The cause of behavioural changes described by Alzheimer for his original case, Auguste D., has been recently reconfirmed by histological examination. However, there has been active speculation regarding the cause of behavioural changes exhibited by the political satirist Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) during the final three years of his life for over 250 years. Swift's symptoms of cognitive changes, memory impairment, personality alterations, language disorder and facial paralysis have all been apportioned differing levels of significance in various attempts at retrospective diagnosis. The various medical arguments put forward from the 18th through 20th centuries will be critically examined. The diagnoses considered refer to evolving theories of insanity, phrenology, localization of cortical function, hydrocephalus, psychoanalysis, aphasia, dementia and depression in ageing. Re-consideration of the attempts to re-diagnose Swift's final mental state by the leading neurological thinkers of the day, including Wilde ( The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life . Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1849), Bucknill (1882), Osler [Osler's textbook Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892) ; published in St Thomas's Hospital Gazette (London) 1902; 12: 59–60), Brain (Irish Med J 1952: 320–1 and 337–346) and Boller and Forbes (J Neurol Sci 1998; 158: 125–133) reveal the changing attitudes regarding the significance of behavioural symptoms to neurological diagnosis from the 18th century to the present day.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awl246 http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/11/3127
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L3 Acquisition after Right-sided Closed Head Injury with Agraphia
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Charles West: a 19th century perspective on acquired childhood aphasia
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Sir William Osler's contribution to the study of childhood aphasia
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Papers on the history of neurolinguistics: introduction to the special issue, Journal of Neurolinguistics
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The unknown source of John Hughlings Jackson's early interest in aphasia and epilepsy
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Acquired childhood aphasia: British contributions to the 19th century debate
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The history of written language disorders: reexamining Pitres’ case (1884) of pure agraphia
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