275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury
The Michael Shermer Show
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The History of Neorology and Psychiatry
Many of the patients i saw were patients who have what one calls functional diseases, mes don't really know what's going on. Pnerological diseases such as the menshaw are specifically nerological. There is still a kind of ain this unit was famed, because there is a kind of no man's land between neorology and psychiatry. We just don't quite know always what th is disorganic basis is. I think one person in five in the us Has chronic pain. Race worled widein includes all sorts of ailments, you know, like i b s is is a functional disease. All sorts of what one calls to day conversion disorders, which called hysteria at some points
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