Abstract: People with late-stage Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) who are assumed to have lost coherent cognitive capacity may exhibit unexpected episodes of spontaneous, meaningful, relevant communication or behavior. Most reports paradoxical lucidity “episodes lucidity” (EL) anecdotal case studies. Given the transient nature lack scientific explanation phenomenon, EL is under-...

We introduce a generalization of oategorial grammar extending its descriptive power~ and a simple model of oategorial gram.at parser. ~oth tools 08/% be adjusted to particular strata of languages via restricting gralmnatieal or computational complexity'. I. .Two questions about oategprial 6]ra3,1ars In. spite of the fascinating folnnal simplicity 8/Id lucidity of oategorial grammar as developed...

This work not only deals with the disorders of speech, but also with the nature and origin of speech itself. It forms a complete study of the faculty of speech, and of its pathological changes. It is original in its conception and in the way in. which this has been carried out, and should place the author amongst the most distinguished of medical writers. Its superlative qualities will, we thin...

This work is one by an author who has devoted himself for many years to the study of a special subject, and to its practical exposition. It is marked by a lucidity of description and illustration which makes it easy to read, and which carry conviction to the reader. The chapter on fractures of the skull is particularly valuable, and the original illustrations in this and other parts of the book...

BACKGROUND The goal of this pilot study was to evaluate the effects of the cognitive-restructuring technique 'lucid dreaming treatment' (LDT) on chronic nightmares. Becoming lucid (realizing that one is dreaming) during a nightmare allows one to alter the nightmare storyline during the nightmare itself. METHODS After having filled out a sleep and a posttraumatic stress disorder questionnaire,...

Terminal lucidity, the unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before the death of patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders, has raised the curiosity of numerous physicians and laypersons in the past. However, this peculiar phenomenon has received little attention in the recent decades. In previous publications, we have presented overviews of cases of t...