While science doesn’t yet understand why these episodes of brief lucidity happen ― studies show they’re fairly common in those with dementia. Share on Pinterest Cavan Images/Getty Images Dementia ...

Dementia is often described as "the long goodbye." Although the person is still alive, dementia slowly and irreversibly chips away at their memories and the qualities that make someone "them." ...

“…the Socrates who is now conversing and arranging the details of his argument is really I; [Crito] thinks I am the one whom he will presently see as a corpse ...

Research assessed caregivers’ perceptions when witnessing episodes of terminal lucidity in children. The findings indicate that witnessing these episodes was regarded as a profoundly spiritual ...

VIGO — Things were not going very well for Aleksandr Pushkin in the fall of 1836. He was deep in debt, expenses piling up and rumors were circulating about the private life of his wife, Natalia.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

While we don’t yet fully understand paradoxical lucidity, it’s a well-documented phenomenon that happens to many people with advanced dementia. Over 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, a ...

Alexander Batthyány writes that “a good scientific theory should predict and explain what is observed. Mr. Pinker’s materialism does neither” (Letters, Nov. 6). Yet a biologically plausible hypothesis ...

Dementia is often described as “the long goodbye”. Although the person is still alive, dementia slowly and irreversibly chips away at their memories and the qualities that make someone “them”.