My Case Study: Richard Pryor

Today, I presented my case study to my group on Richard Pryor, who was a comedian that was diagnosed with MS in 1986. Richard was diagnosed when he was 46 years old. It's interesting to look at Richard's journey with MS because its likely that he was diagnosed due to environmental factors. Richard was a heavy drinker and drug user. He had a heart attack, triple by-pass surgery, and a suicide attempt before he was diagnosed with MS. Most likely, all of this is a contribution to his development of the disease.

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The Notebook

Again with the cheesy romantic movies, but I can't help myself. For my NeuroNote, I decided to do re-watch the Notebook for the 1,000th time. It's funny what you notice in movies when you watch them looking for specific things. This time around I wasn't watching to swoon over the relationship between the two main characters, Allie and Noah, but for the movies portrayal of dementia. The Notebook is arguably one of the most popular romance movies of my time. It centers around the rocky relationship of Noah and Allie. I won't go into too much detail giving a summary, but basically the couple breaks up while they are young and find each other again when they are older. Allie leaves her rich, handsome, smitten fiancé for Noah and they marry and have kids. However, the story of Noah and Allie is actually told by Noah, who is reading it out loud from a book to Allie in an assisted living home. The couple is elderly, and Allie has severe dementia. She has no idea who h...

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Cameron's Case Study

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