350th Anniversary of Les Passions de l'Ame |
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| Authors: | C.U.M. Smith |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Research Fellow, Department of Community-Based Medicine , University of Bristol , UK Alimurad@doctors.org.uk |
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| Abstract: | 1999 marks the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Descartes' final work: Les Passions de l'Ame. This short paper commemorates that event and discusses the circumstances contributing to its origin and the questions which it still raises for neuropsychology three hundred and fifty years later. |
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| Keywords: | cerebral palsy emperor Claudius Tourette's syndrome Roman history history of medicine |
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