Is There a Diagnosis Problem?

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At some point a quantitative difference or decline in memory becomes qualitatively different. As they say, if you can't remember where you put your car keys, that doesn't mean you're suffering from dimentia. You know, where is that line in isi of the diagnosis problem? Seems pretty important. I saw exactly how they were conducting their examinations a and it was fascinating.

Shermer and Arikha discuss: what it means for a mind to be disrupted • dementia, senility, and Alzheimer’s disease • mental illness and the labeling problem • the social construction of mental illness • neurology and psychiatry • agency and volition • memory and amnesia • autobiographical memory • self and embodied self • brain modularity • brain as a machine • emotions and cognition: bodily changes first then the awareness of the emotion • conversion disorder/hysteria • depression • metacognition: thinking about thinking • exteroception and interoception.

Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy.