Reconfiguring the Parkinson's Personality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.

Authors :: Porter D
Source :: Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine [Can Bull Med Hist] Fall 2016; Vol. 33 (2), pp. 465-492. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Sep 07.
Publication Year :: 2016
Abstract: This article explores the historical construction of a bio-psychological model of a pre-diagnostic Parkinson's Disease Personality. The essay interrogates the historically situated value-laden assumptions about character traits thought to be correlated with neuro-molecular variations measured in the brain. The epistemological security of the bio-psychological model is examined in the light of patients' own interpretations of their cognitive experiences of creativity, and the meaning of their feeling "emergent" as contrasted to the experience of a static human existence.

Subjects :: Creativity
Humans
Brain physiology
Brain physiopathology
Parkinson Disease
Personality

Language :: English
ISSN :: 0823-2105
Volume :: 33
Issue :: 2
Database :: MEDLINE
Journal :: Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 28155420
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.33.2.149-27012015

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