Bullet List

Too much going on for one post today.1. Sock puppet?We have a reader who is obsessed with his false conclusion that the commenter Don Quixote is actually my sock puppet. I ask you please to stop wasting your time and mine with this delusion. We do know each other, but we have seen each other once in the past 15 years or so. I live in Connecticut and he lives in the midwest, more than 1,000 miles away. Whatever I have to say, I am more than happy to say in my own name, and I do. BTW I am not known as Michael.2. Mad KingYour Intertubes are all aflutter with speculation and discussion about the neurodegenerative disease many believe is affecting the Resident.Lapsed economist Duncan Black has perceived dementia for a long time, while wisely declining to offer a specific diagnosis. I take the same stance. I am not a neurologist, and even if I were and had the opportunity to examine the subject, it is actually not possible to definitively classify most forms of dementia except by autopsy. And autopsy is normally counterindicated in a living patient. So arguments about whether we are seeing Progressive Supranuclear Palsy or Primary Progressive Aphasia or whatever are feckless and a meaningless distraction.However, diagnostic labeling aside, a few things are apparent. The observable symptoms began with disordered speech, and speech disorder continues to be the most prominent and apparent manifestation. This includes increasingly impoverished vocabulary, strange word substitutions (or...
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