Prescient description of frontal lobe syndrome in an Edgar Allan Poe tale

Lancet. 2004 Mar 13;363(9412):902. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15758-9.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Capgras Syndrome / history
  • Dementia / history*
  • Frontal Lobe* / injuries
  • History, 19th Century
  • Humans
  • Literature, Modern / history*
  • Medicine in Literature*
  • Syndrome

Personal name as subject

  • Edgar Allen Poe