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THE first of these papers is a study of thirty-eight cases of insanity (dementia praecox, general paralysis, arteriosclerotic dementia, and senile dementia) and their autopsies. It is pointed out that entirely different symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, loss of memory, disordered conduct) may occur in different patients, although the associated cortical atrophy may occur in precisely the same areas; also that the same symptoms may occur in different patients in whom the cortical atrophy is subsequently found to be in different areas. The author, however, ignores the fact that different layers of the cerebral cortex are affected in the different diseases.
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On the Functions of the Cerebrum 1 . Nature 96, 156–157 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096156b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/096156b0