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Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson
Have any of you watched the movie "The Notebook"? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I watched it, between tears (I'm a complete softie) I remember thinking, "Oh no! This will give people false hope! That their loved one is 'in there.' If only they could find the right key to unlock the lock and let them out."
Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Our guests are Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, a nurse…
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