Ian McEwan--novels about neurological and psychiatric patients.
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Ian McEwan, a respected contemporary British writer, sometimes uses neurological and psychiatric patients as main characters of his stories. In his recent novels one can find beautiful descriptions of patients with Huntington's disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, de Clerambault syndrome and also details about some neurosurgical procedures.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- European neurology
دوره 60 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008