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Religion and Transnationalism
Authors: Kurien Prema A.
Published: January 2025

This chapter discusses the key events that led to religion becoming a major source of division among Indian Americans. This led to the splintering of Indian Americans in the public sphere with the establishment of organizations dedicated to developing a transnational Hindu political identity, on the one hand, and on the other, the formation of advocacy organizations by Indian religious minorities to bring attacks against their religions to the attention of the American public. The first part of the chapter provides a brief background to some historical events during the colonial period and with the rise of Hindu nationalism in the 1990s that led to religious cleavages. The bulk of the chapter focuses on the various religious advocacy organizations formed in the United States, the reasons for their formation, and the early issues that they mobilized around.
Enacting Cultural Citizenship
Authors: Kurien Prema A.
Published: January 2025

Chapter 4 focuses on Indian American activism around U.S. domestic policy and examines and explains the reasons for the very similar patterns of activism of religious minority groups when compared with immigrant groups that become part of the religious majority (Indian American Christians). Organizations representing Indian American religious minorities in the United States—Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh—mobilized around several common issues such as anti-defamation, religious discrimination, and hate crimes after 9/11 to educate Americans about their religions, seek acknowledgment and recognition from the White House and the U.S. administration, obtain accommodation of their religious practices, and have a political voice in shaping U.S. laws and policies. Since early 2000, these organizations have been led by second-generation activists. However, Indian American Christian organizations have remained first generation led and homeland oriented, focusing on attacks against Christians in India. The chapter also discusses activism around caste discrimination in the United States.
Introduction
Authors: Kiras James D. , Kitzen Martijn
Published: January 2025

At this very moment an uncertain void exists between what armed forces are focusing on—predominantly conventional warfare—and what they might be required to do in order to secure their states’ interest in Great Power competition (GPC) or in the defense against violent non-state threats. This edited volume seeks to answer the question of how to fill this void in one form of military capability: Special Operations Forces (SOF). Into the Void provides robust answers to the question of how special operations can be expected to fill the void in military capabilities now and in the future. The much-needed transformation of SOF is analyzed from multiple perspectives and angles including the strategic utility, roles, and capabilities, as well as technologies and future. The volume seeks to combine all the resulting findings to offer a unique insight into today’s special operations and the ongoing transformation process that seeks to reorient and optimize SOF for the new security environment. In doing so, it updates the existing body of thought and provides strands for further thinking in this specific and underrepresented field of strategic studies.
Reanimating the Tactical Level
Authors: Dehaene Pierre Jean
Published: January 2025

This chapter presents a novel concept (the localization strategy) and how it can be used effectively for stabilization operations in the current operating environment. However, it must be said immediately that the objective is to redefine and reanimate this discussion by engaging it from a tacticalperspective. The objective is twofold: first to establish a shared understanding on the nature of Special Operations forces (a fixed concept) as opposed to its characteristics (a fluid concept); and secondly, to introduce the localization strategy (LS)—with several applications in Niger (2018-2023)—as a broad conceptual handrail for operating with clear and consistent strategic sense. It is a plan for making aplan. Its processes are fixed while its plans are fluid. The more there is uncertainty, the more there is a need for strategic fluidity (in creative application) and fixedness (in strategic sense and purpose). It was designed for the tactical level, as an effort to renew and revitalize applied strategic thinking, in order to increase harmonization between the levels of warfare.
A Glance Into the Future
Authors: Schwarzbauer Matthias , Tuinman Joost
Published: January 2025

This chapter introduces a research design that combines the appeal of storytelling with the analytical question of the future strategic role of SOF. The aim is not to write exciting stories; rather, Schwarzbauer and Tuinman stress the importance of utilizing the advantage of combining facts with fiction, analyzing and fore sighting the roles of SOF in future operational environments. Storytelling is a powerfultool to ignite and shape thinking. Stories will impact perceptions—and using this powerful tool for debatingthe needed future capabilities of Special Operations Forces (SOF) is no exception. The writers introduce a three-step approach for scenario development using imagination and fiction in a useful way. Employing the scenario development process to create engaging and compelling narratives offers an unconventional approach to inform and shape the perspectives of political decision makers, policy makers, and practitioners alike. Leveraging the power of storytelling is a powerful and accessible tool for communicating problems,dilemmas, and solutions with strategic effects through SOF employment. Everybody likes a good story, and emphasizing SOF’s strategic utility in future scenarios can illuminate ways to fill the void in military capabilities beyond the current security situation.
Conclusion
Authors: Kiras James D. , Kitzen Martijn
Published: January 2025

To assist special operations breaking out of their box, the various authors have functionally and conceptually identified different dimensions, as well as characteristics and attributes, of special operations in the void. In sum, they identify the contours of an irregular-competitive-conflict nexus in which special operations can play a number of different roles. The implications of these contours are evident, in terms of overlapping relationships, but how to turn them into specific capabilities is both beyond the scope of this volume and unnecessary. A more systematic exploration of these ideas hopefully will lead to debate and discussion, and perhaps even the development of capabilities or systems that may lead to a more rapid response and resolution of future war. In the final analysis Western SOF cannot afford the consequences of not seriously considering this nexus and taking decisive action to fill the void, lest they remain in their current comfortable blanket of complacency and secure stovepipes of excellence. This volume and its contributions provide a welcome step in this direction.
One Enemy at a Time
Authors: Paliwal Avinash
Published: January 2025

This chapter explains how constitutional survivalism and resistance to India’s republican aspirations shaped New Delhi’s approach towards Bengal, Assam, and Burma. It explores how India’s struggles to contain communist and communal violence in its eastern states of Assam and West Bengal shaped such constitutional survivalism. To prevent spillover of communist violence, India armed the Burma army to prevent state collapse in 1949. Good ties with Burma were critical enough for India to overlook Rangoon’s controversial 1954 land nationalization that left Burmese Indians landless and stateless. In East Pakistan, India’s response to the 1952-54 language movement was lukewarm. But Pakistan’s imposition of martial law after the 1954 assembly elections in its eastern wing, sowed the seeds of war with India long before 1971.
‘Termites’
Authors: Paliwal Avinash
Published: January 2025

This chapter explains how China’s growing power and the cementing of Hindu nationalist politics shaped New Delhi’s approach towards its near east. The chapter focuses on two moments that were pivotal. First was the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles mutiny and India’s response thereto. Concerned about Haisna’s physical safety and political survival, India almost militarily intervened in Bangladesh. The second case was India’s response to the 2007-08 “Saffron Revolution” in Myanmar led by monks against the junta. Unlike 1988 when New Delhi supported the democracy movement, India did nothing to dislocate its relations with Myanmar’s junta during this incident. The rest of the chapter unpacks India’s deepening of economic and diplomatic ties with both its eastern neighbors in the 2010s. New Delhi became heavily invested in building infrastructural connectivity projects and enhancing trade with both these neighbors as part of its ‘Act East’ policy.
The Balance Sheet
Authors: Gustafson Thane
Published: January 2025

This chapter reviews the laying down of many of the economic and institutional foundations of a modern market economy in Russia, which began under Boris Yeltsin, and continued through the late 2000s. Despite the rebuilding of the state and the partial remilitarization of the economy under Putin since the mid-2010s, these changes are here to stay. It shows that despite these positives, the two-way opening to the West left Russia with serious vulnerabilities, both inherited and new. The chapter describes the negative side of Russia’s balance sheet as a missed opportunity, with two faces: the massive misallocation of Russia’s wealth to state-owned corporations run by well-placed elites and the failure to encourage and protect private enterprise, especially in the service and high-tech sectors. It concludes that the opportunity to build a strong entrepreneurial class, based on a diversified economy, was missed, and the Ukrainian war and the subsequent sanctions have aggravated the impact of the missed opportunities, while diminishing the long-term effectiveness of Russian responses to them.
Introduction
Authors: Melber Henning
Published: January 2025

This chapter takes stock of the current German policy responses to demands facing the colonial past and its consequences for German memory culture. It reveals the colonial blind spots in official German positions and documents, including party political policies. The return of the Benin bronzes to Nigeria illustrates the ambiguities and contradictions of new initiatives to come to terms with the colonial past. Recent engagements by Germany’s highest ranking state representatives illustrate the willingness to engage with a colonial past, but at the same time displays the limitations of remorse and atonement through rather symbolic gestures. The latest coalition government’s inclusion of engagement with the colonial past in the present in its joint agreement is critically interrogated and its limitations are pointed out as tokenism.
Enlightenment, Racism, Colonialism and Genocide
Authors: Melber Henning
Published: January 2025

This chapter puts German colonial expansion of the late 19th century into the overall context of European imperialist expansion into other parts of the world. The mid-16th century debate at the Spanish Court at Valladolid over the treatment of the indigenous people in South America marked the beginning of the racist hierarchical world view as an integral part of the era of Enlightenment. The Eurocentric Western modernity considered as superior to other people and cultures and a justification for imposing foreign rule included the willingness to eliminate those elsewhere, who resisted the self-declared civilizing mission. Colonial occupation included extreme violence as an integral part of a trans-imperial phenomenon. Comparative genocidal studies have shown that colonialism and genocide remain an unresolved, hardly acknowledged legacy of European modernity.
The German Colonial Brand
Authors: Melber Henning
Published: January 2025

The chapter summarizes the early German overseas economic activities during the slave trade as initial beginning, followed by a colonial movement in the German empire advocating formal colonial expansion. It sketches the inner-German constellation leading to the comparatively late entry as colonial power and summarizes the colonial occupation and its consequences in separate case studies on South West Africa, Cameroon, Togo, East Africa, the South Sea ,and the lease of Tsingtao between 1884 and 1914. German remnants after the end of colonial rule in these territories are identified and the domestic German discourse over colonial policy, and its forms and practices during the German empire are discussed. Subsequent parts focus on the colonial ideology without colonies in the Weimar republic and under the Nazi regime. The treatment and role of Africans in Germany from early overseas expansion to colonial times until World War 2 concludes the chapter.
Replicated series
Authors: Diggle Peter J. , Giorgi Emanuele
Published: January 2025

In this chapter, we extend the modelling framework introduced in Chapter 5 to the analysis of replicated time-series data. The extension is technically straightforward. An important new feature of replicated series is that the replication within the study design can be exploited to enable an unambiguous separation between deterministic and stochastic components of variation. We also explain the difference between marginal and conditional models, which arises when considering generalized linear models for non-Gaussian data.
Clause chaining in the languages of the world in typological perspective
Authors: Sarvasy Hannah S. , Aikhenvald Alexandra Y.
Published: January 2025

The ways of forming sentences and of describing events vary across the languages of the world. The grammars of hundreds of languages permit a special type of complex sentence containing a set of dependent clauses, unavailable to languages like English: the ‘clause chain’. Clause chains are found, especially, in languages of the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, East Africa, and in numerous languages across central Asia. Clause chaining often goes together with switch-reference marking, an indication of whether upcoming subjects will be co-referential or not. A brief overview of previous approaches to and investigations of clause chains is followed by an overview of recurrent grammatical features of clause chains. Further dimensions of clause chaining include bridging constructions, non-canonical uses of medial clauses, and the interaction of clause chains with cognitive processes. The last section contains an overview of the volume and perspectives for further studies. The Appendix lists points for fieldworkers.
Clause chaining and switch-reference in Ndu languages
Authors: Alexandra Aikhenvald Y.
Published: January 2025

All Ndu languages have productive clause chaining and elaborate systems of switch-reference. This chapter shows how connectives tend to arise from transparent grammaticalization of markers of summary linkage. Switch-reference operates on the principles of subject identity between the reference clause and marking clause. Iatmul and Boiken lack special markers of different subject. Manambu, Yalaku, and Abelam-Wosera have fewer markers of different subject than of same subject. Dependent clauses share intonational properties. Heterosemous case markers as clause linkers are a feature of Manambu and of Yalaku. The dative case is involved in marking purposive clauses across the family. A special feature of Manambu, Yalaku, and Abelam-Wosera is the option of questioning a constituent within a dependent clause without questioning the main clause. Same subject switch-reference-sensitive dependent clauses in Yalaku can be within the scope of an imperative. Recapitulating linkage is pervasive while summary linkage is a feature of Manambu, Iatmul, and also Yalaku.
Clause chaining in Matukar Panau (Oceanic, Papua New Guinea)
Authors: Barth Danielle , Ross Malcolm
Published: January 2025

This chapter offers a description of the structure and usage of clause chains in Matukar Panau, an Oceanic Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea with long term Papuan language contact. Matukar Panau is in the small Bel family. Although clause chaining is a common clause combining strategy in Papuan languages, including those spoken near the village of Matukar, it is atypical of Oceanic languages. Like some neighbouring Papuan languages, Matukar Panau has recapitulative linkage, but no switch-reference. Medial verbs are marked for reality status, which scopes over the entire clause chain, which is also a feature of some Papuan languages. However, the distinction in realis/irrealis is a pervasive feature of Oceanic. The etymology of Matukar Panau medial verb markers, in the context of Bel languages and Proto-Oceanic can help explain some of the features of the modern system, including homonymy of some medial and final markers.
Clause chaining in East Tukanoan Kotiria and Wa’ikhana
Authors: Stenzel Kristine
Published: January 2025

This chapter discusses multi-verb constructions and two types of clause chaining constructions in Kotiria and Wa’ikhana, languages of the East Tukano family of northwestern Amazonia. It describes the structural features by which different multi-verb constructions can be recognized, including a system of switch-reference marking in complex sentences, and then goes on to discussion of how clause chains are employed in monologic and conversational discourse. Examples from monologic discourse, such as narratives and procedural texts, illustrate the interplay of switch-reference morphology and other resources to ensure both reference tracking and foregrounding/backgrounding of topical events and participants. It also illustrates the interaction of distinct sentence-level and paragraph-level linkage strategies in discourse management. Examples from conversational data contribute further insights on how complex sentences are pragmatically employed in everyday interaction, particularly underscoring the ‘projection’ function of dependent clauses and their role in the dynamic realization of social actions.
Clause chaining in Dzongkha
Authors: Watters Stephen
Published: January 2025

This chapter describes the clause chain in Dzongkha, with a focus on the medial clause. There are four medial clauses, and they have both canonical and non-canonical usage. Canonical medial clauses precede the final clause. Two medial clauses are sensitive to referent tracking, and exhibit the characteristics of an incipient switch-reference system. There are three types of non-canonical medial clauses, one of which is not well-described for other languages and is the first description of its kind for Dzongkha. It involves the conventionalized medial clause use of what, on prima facie grounds, appears to formally be an independent clause. The chapter also illustrates that clause chains can be complex, both within the medial clause itself, and with the combining of different types of medial clauses within a single chain.
Clause chains and related structures in Macro-Tani languages
Authors: Mark W. Post , Yankee Modi
Published: January 2025

This chapter describes clause chaining and related structures in the Macro-Tani group of Trans-Himalayan (= Sino-Tibetan) languages, focusing on the Tani languages Galo and Adi on the one hand, and the more genetically distant Milang on the other. Adopting synchronic and diachronic perspectives, it discusses morphological markers of clause chains, outlines the basic syntactic features of Macro-Tani clause chains in two types of ‘non-final’ construction, and describes Macro-Tani clause chains in desubordinated, quotative and imperative constructions. By analysing Macro-Tani clause chains in the broader context of its dependent clause typology, this chapter provides evidence for the structural distinctness of non-final constructions in Macro-Tani, which are broadly consistent with the ‘co-subordinate’ type. It therefore cautions against claims made in the literature that ‘Asian converbs’ tend to conflate most if not all coordinating and subordinating functions into a single structural type; in Macro-Tani languages, at least, this is clearly not the case.
Clause chaining in Turkic
Authors: Johanson Lars , Csató Éva Á. , Karakoç Birsel
Published: January 2025

The chapter describes specific features of Turkic clause chains, which are sequences of recursively subordinated converb clauses headed by serial converbs grammaticalized for this function. Serial converb suffixes assign a vague meaning, expressing the completion of the relevant phase of the event and pointing forward to the next event as an ‘and’ in English. Clause chains have semantic and syntactic properties distinguishing them from clause combining strategies characteristic of complement, relative, and adverbial clauses. Clause chains are typical of narrative discourse types in several Turkic languages. The use of clause chains based on the same non-modifying converb is highly restricted in contemporary Turkish.
The Amharic converb in clause chaining
Authors: Sarvasy Hannah S. , Aikhenvald Alexandra Y.
Published: January 2025

This chapter examines the converb in Amharic as one of the grammatical devices for clause chaining. A characteristic property of the converb is that it is unmarked for tense/aspect, which prohibits it from functioning as a head of an independent clause while allowing it to occur with main verbs that are marked for various tense/aspect. One consequence of this is that the converb can function as an adverbial modifier of the main clause. The event expressed by the converb and the main verb can be simultaneous or sequential, and as the converb and the main verb can have different arguments, it is possible to question or focus the arguments of the converb independent of the arguments of the main verb. The chapter also shows the grammaticalized forms of some converbs, including the use of the converb of the verb ‘say’ as a complementizer occurring with verbs of cognition and speech.
Converb constructions and clause chaining in Cushitic
Authors: Treis Yvonne , Vanhove Martine
Published: January 2025

This chapter describes the morphology and syntax of converbs in eleven Cushitic languages, with a special focus on Beja and Kambaata. Cushitic converbs are used in clause chaining function, but chains are considerably shorter than in e.g. Papuan languages. In some languages, converbal clauses qualify as embedded clauses. Across the Cushitic family, converbs display considerable formal and functional variation. On a morphological cline of finiteness, converbs range from strictly non-finite to partially finite forms. Between one and six converb types, with different degrees of semantic specialization, are distinguished in individual languages. Only in one genetic subgrouping are converbs marked for switch-reference. The final part of this chapter discusses the use of converbs beyond clause combining and provides examples of lexicalization and grammaticalization, in particular as part of complex predicates.
Clause chaining in Bantu languages
Authors: Riedel Kristina , Gibson Hannah
Published: January 2025

This chapter explores clause chaining constructions in Bantu. The Bantu languages are a group of some 450–500 languages spoken across much of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa. Eastern Bantu, in particular, exhibits a high degree of similarity across a range of domains. However, the language family also exhibits a high degree of micro-variation in the key areas of morphosyntax. The chapter examines clause chaining constructions in Bantu, and presents data exemplifying four clause chaining strategies in the language family. It also examines in more detail, clause chaining constructions in three better described Bantu languages, namely Swahili, Sesotho, and Zulu. Bantu clause chains are commonly associated with the narrative marker ka- (and variants thereof), reflecting the interaction of the construction with the complex system of TAM marking for which the language family is known. A distinctive feature of Bantu clause chains is that they can span multiple sentences.
Journey during acute ischemic stroke: a physician’s experience
Authors: Hoong L. Chen , Sharma V. K.
Published: January 2025

This chapter presents a series of 12 articles reflecting different types of stroke. Article 1 discusses a cognitive neuropsychologist’s right anterior cortical stroke. Article 2 explores a general practitioner’s right hemisphere stroke. Article 3 narrates a nurse’s experience following a left frontal stroke, whereas Article 4 reflects on a late professor and classical pianist’s experience with a right parietal stroke. Article 5 describes a radiologist’s encounter with an acute right hemisphere stroke. Article 6 provides insight into a neuropsychologist’s life after a ruptured left frontal arteriovenous malformation that occurred at the age of 19 years. Article 7 details a psychiatrist’s episode of transient global amnesia. Article 8 recounts a nephrologist who suffered a cerebellar infarct. Article 9 examines an aphasiologist’s stroke affecting the brainstem. Article 10 reports on a cardiologist’s embolic stroke involving the cerebellum. Article 11 outlines the consequences of a neuroscientist’s brainstem infarct. Finally, Article 12 shares a nurse’s perspective on a right parietal lobe stroke.
Summary of ‘Close your eyes and see: stroke sequelae versus functional neurological disorder in a physician’ *
Authors: Weil E. J.
Published: January 2025

This chapter presents a series of 12 articles reflecting different types of stroke. Article 1 discusses a cognitive neuropsychologist’s right anterior cortical stroke. Article 2 explores a general practitioner’s right hemisphere stroke. Article 3 narrates a nurse’s experience following a left frontal stroke, whereas Article 4 reflects on a late professor and classical pianist’s experience with a right parietal stroke. Article 5 describes a radiologist’s encounter with an acute right hemisphere stroke. Article 6 provides insight into a neuropsychologist’s life after a ruptured left frontal arteriovenous malformation that occurred at the age of 19 years. Article 7 details a psychiatrist’s episode of transient global amnesia. Article 8 recounts a nephrologist who suffered a cerebellar infarct. Article 9 examines an aphasiologist’s stroke affecting the brainstem. Article 10 reports on a cardiologist’s embolic stroke involving the cerebellum. Article 11 outlines the consequences of a neuroscientist’s brainstem infarct. Finally, Article 12 shares a nurse’s perspective on a right parietal lobe stroke.
Books by doctors/scientists recounting their personal experience of stroke
Authors: Kapur Narinder , Bell Vaughan , Friedland Daniel , Kemp Steven
Published: January 2025

This chapter presents a series of 12 articles reflecting different types of stroke. Article 1 discusses a cognitive neuropsychologist’s right anterior cortical stroke. Article 2 explores a general practitioner’s right hemisphere stroke. Article 3 narrates a nurse’s experience following a left frontal stroke, whereas Article 4 reflects on a late professor and classical pianist’s experience with a right parietal stroke. Article 5 describes a radiologist’s encounter with an acute right hemisphere stroke. Article 6 provides insight into a neuropsychologist’s life after a ruptured left frontal arteriovenous malformation that occurred at the age of 19 years. Article 7 details a psychiatrist’s episode of transient global amnesia. Article 8 recounts a nephrologist who suffered a cerebellar infarct. Article 9 examines an aphasiologist’s stroke affecting the brainstem. Article 10 reports on a cardiologist’s embolic stroke involving the cerebellum. Article 11 outlines the consequences of a neuroscientist’s brainstem infarct. Finally, Article 12 shares a nurse’s perspective on a right parietal lobe stroke.
The French Connection
Authors: Anonymous
Published: January 2025

This chapter includes 10 articles that explore the experiences of those who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Article 1 describes the symptoms that followed a TBI suffered by a neurology professor after a fall. Articles 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 describe the consequences of a TBI following a road traffic accident. In Article 4, the doctor sustained a severe TBI that occurred while skiing.
Summary of ‘The making of a better doctor’ *
Authors: Stepien K. A.
Published: January 2025

This chapter includes 10 articles that explore the experiences of those who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Article 1 describes the symptoms that followed a TBI suffered by a neurology professor after a fall. Articles 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 describe the consequences of a TBI following a road traffic accident. In Article 4, the doctor sustained a severe TBI that occurred while skiing.
Summary of ‘Denial inside out: subjective experience with anosognosia with closed head injury’ *
Authors: LaBaw W. L.
Published: January 2025

This chapter includes 10 articles that explore the experiences of those who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Article 1 describes the symptoms that followed a TBI suffered by a neurology professor after a fall. Articles 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 describe the consequences of a TBI following a road traffic accident. In Article 4, the doctor sustained a severe TBI that occurred while skiing.
Summary of ‘On being a doctor again’ *
Authors: Liu C.
Published: January 2025

This chapter includes 10 articles that explore the experiences of those who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Article 1 describes the symptoms that followed a TBI suffered by a neurology professor after a fall. Articles 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 describe the consequences of a TBI following a road traffic accident. In Article 4, the doctor sustained a severe TBI that occurred while skiing.
Losing the thread: experiences of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease
Authors: Bebbington P.
Published: January 2025

This chapter brings together 17 narratives from those having to deal with dementia. Article 1 features a professor recounting early Alzheimer's symptoms. Article 2 discusses a GP's Alzheimer's and heart problems. Articles 3 and 4 include a neurologist's observations and reflections related to his Alzheimer's Disease. Articles 5 and 6 describe a neurologist's Parkinson's Disease (PD). Article 7 details a professor's fluctuating Parkinson's symptoms, whilst Article 8 shares a surgeon's PD experiences and effective treatment. Articles 9 and 10 see a doctor reflecting on early PD symptoms and patient-inspired insights. Article 11 provides a physician's insights on his PD's daily life impact. Article 12 by a physician, discusses PD, Lewy Body Dementia, and its effect on his identity. Article 13 narrates a neurologist's Lewy Body Dementia encounter. Articles 14 and 15 present a hepatologist's PD and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Articles 16 and 17 discuss the experiences with Primary Progressive Aphasia of a scientist and a physician respectively.
Dementia with cardiac problems
Authors: Bute J. , Waller D.
Published: January 2025

This chapter brings together 17 narratives from those having to deal with dementia. Article 1 features a professor recounting early Alzheimer's symptoms. Article 2 discusses a GP's Alzheimer's and heart problems. Articles 3 and 4 include a neurologist's observations and reflections related to his Alzheimer's Disease. Articles 5 and 6 describe a neurologist's Parkinson's Disease (PD). Article 7 details a professor's fluctuating Parkinson's symptoms, whilst Article 8 shares a surgeon's PD experiences and effective treatment. Articles 9 and 10 see a doctor reflecting on early PD symptoms and patient-inspired insights. Article 11 provides a physician's insights on his PD's daily life impact. Article 12 by a physician, discusses PD, Lewy Body Dementia, and its effect on his identity. Article 13 narrates a neurologist's Lewy Body Dementia encounter. Articles 14 and 15 present a hepatologist's PD and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Articles 16 and 17 discuss the experiences with Primary Progressive Aphasia of a scientist and a physician respectively.
A neurologist with Parkinson’s disease
Authors: Blacker D.
Published: January 2025

This chapter brings together 17 narratives from those having to deal with dementia. Article 1 features a professor recounting early Alzheimer's symptoms. Article 2 discusses a GP's Alzheimer's and heart problems. Articles 3 and 4 include a neurologist's observations and reflections related to his Alzheimer's Disease. Articles 5 and 6 describe a neurologist's Parkinson's Disease (PD). Article 7 details a professor's fluctuating Parkinson's symptoms, whilst Article 8 shares a surgeon's PD experiences and effective treatment. Articles 9 and 10 see a doctor reflecting on early PD symptoms and patient-inspired insights. Article 11 provides a physician's insights on his PD's daily life impact. Article 12 by a physician, discusses PD, Lewy Body Dementia, and its effect on his identity. Article 13 narrates a neurologist's Lewy Body Dementia encounter. Articles 14 and 15 present a hepatologist's PD and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Articles 16 and 17 discuss the experiences with Primary Progressive Aphasia of a scientist and a physician respectively.
Being a patient with early stage Parkinson disease: reaction to the diagnosis and management
Authors: Blacker D.
Published: January 2025

This chapter brings together 17 narratives from those having to deal with dementia. Article 1 features a professor recounting early Alzheimer's symptoms. Article 2 discusses a GP's Alzheimer's and heart problems. Articles 3 and 4 include a neurologist's observations and reflections related to his Alzheimer's Disease. Articles 5 and 6 describe a neurologist's Parkinson's Disease (PD). Article 7 details a professor's fluctuating Parkinson's symptoms, whilst Article 8 shares a surgeon's PD experiences and effective treatment. Articles 9 and 10 see a doctor reflecting on early PD symptoms and patient-inspired insights. Article 11 provides a physician's insights on his PD's daily life impact. Article 12 by a physician, discusses PD, Lewy Body Dementia, and its effect on his identity. Article 13 narrates a neurologist's Lewy Body Dementia encounter. Articles 14 and 15 present a hepatologist's PD and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Articles 16 and 17 discuss the experiences with Primary Progressive Aphasia of a scientist and a physician respectively.
Gazing at the future
Authors: Blevins S.
Published: January 2025

This chapter brings together 17 narratives from those having to deal with dementia. Article 1 features a professor recounting early Alzheimer's symptoms. Article 2 discusses a GP's Alzheimer's and heart problems. Articles 3 and 4 include a neurologist's observations and reflections related to his Alzheimer's Disease. Articles 5 and 6 describe a neurologist's Parkinson's Disease (PD). Article 7 details a professor's fluctuating Parkinson's symptoms, whilst Article 8 shares a surgeon's PD experiences and effective treatment. Articles 9 and 10 see a doctor reflecting on early PD symptoms and patient-inspired insights. Article 11 provides a physician's insights on his PD's daily life impact. Article 12 by a physician, discusses PD, Lewy Body Dementia, and its effect on his identity. Article 13 narrates a neurologist's Lewy Body Dementia encounter. Articles 14 and 15 present a hepatologist's PD and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Articles 16 and 17 discuss the experiences with Primary Progressive Aphasia of a scientist and a physician respectively.
Summary of ‘My experience of living with nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia: challenges, compensatory strategies and adaptations’ *
Authors: Douglas J. T.
Published: January 2025

This chapter brings together 17 narratives from those having to deal with dementia. Article 1 features a professor recounting early Alzheimer's symptoms. Article 2 discusses a GP's Alzheimer's and heart problems. Articles 3 and 4 include a neurologist's observations and reflections related to his Alzheimer's Disease. Articles 5 and 6 describe a neurologist's Parkinson's Disease (PD). Article 7 details a professor's fluctuating Parkinson's symptoms, whilst Article 8 shares a surgeon's PD experiences and effective treatment. Articles 9 and 10 see a doctor reflecting on early PD symptoms and patient-inspired insights. Article 11 provides a physician's insights on his PD's daily life impact. Article 12 by a physician, discusses PD, Lewy Body Dementia, and its effect on his identity. Article 13 narrates a neurologist's Lewy Body Dementia encounter. Articles 14 and 15 present a hepatologist's PD and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Articles 16 and 17 discuss the experiences with Primary Progressive Aphasia of a scientist and a physician respectively.
Summary of ‘Brain anatomy: thoughts from the inside’ *
Authors: Pordy W. T.
Published: January 2025

This chapter brings together 17 narratives from those having to deal with dementia. Article 1 features a professor recounting early Alzheimer's symptoms. Article 2 discusses a GP's Alzheimer's and heart problems. Articles 3 and 4 include a neurologist's observations and reflections related to his Alzheimer's Disease. Articles 5 and 6 describe a neurologist's Parkinson's Disease (PD). Article 7 details a professor's fluctuating Parkinson's symptoms, whilst Article 8 shares a surgeon's PD experiences and effective treatment. Articles 9 and 10 see a doctor reflecting on early PD symptoms and patient-inspired insights. Article 11 provides a physician's insights on his PD's daily life impact. Article 12 by a physician, discusses PD, Lewy Body Dementia, and its effect on his identity. Article 13 narrates a neurologist's Lewy Body Dementia encounter. Articles 14 and 15 present a hepatologist's PD and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Articles 16 and 17 discuss the experiences with Primary Progressive Aphasia of a scientist and a physician respectively.
My journey with limbic encephalitis
Authors: Ramya S.
Published: January 2025

In this chapter, there are seven articles dealing with serious infectious and inflammatory diseases. Article 1 provides a cardiologist’s detailed account of limbic encephalitis, emphasizing the fluctuating cognitive and emotional symptoms due to hippocampal and amygdala involvement. Article 2 offers insights from a neurologist on a unique presentation of autoimmune limbic encephalitis that affected him. Article 3 shares a physician’s personal journey with autoimmune encephalitis, highlighting the condition’s significant impact on mental well-being. Article 4 focuses on a psychiatrist’s challenging experience with COVID-19-related delirium and the lingering effects of long COVID. Article 5 discusses a doctor’s delirium episode following COVID-19, which included a period in intensive care. Article 6 reports another doctor’s experience with delirium, which followed a presumed meningitis infection. Finally, Article 7 is a gripping story of survival from a psychiatrist who battled streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
COVID delirium and long COVID
Authors: Mitchell A.
Published: January 2025

In this chapter, there are seven articles dealing with serious infectious and inflammatory diseases. Article 1 provides a cardiologist’s detailed account of limbic encephalitis, emphasizing the fluctuating cognitive and emotional symptoms due to hippocampal and amygdala involvement. Article 2 offers insights from a neurologist on a unique presentation of autoimmune limbic encephalitis that affected him. Article 3 shares a physician’s personal journey with autoimmune encephalitis, highlighting the condition’s significant impact on mental well-being. Article 4 focuses on a psychiatrist’s challenging experience with COVID-19-related delirium and the lingering effects of long COVID. Article 5 discusses a doctor’s delirium episode following COVID-19, which included a period in intensive care. Article 6 reports another doctor’s experience with delirium, which followed a presumed meningitis infection. Finally, Article 7 is a gripping story of survival from a psychiatrist who battled streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
First Person Account COVID-19 Delirium in a Doctor: When Death Stalks the Mind
Authors: Arumi A. , Bulbena-Cabre A. , Bulbena A.
Published: January 2025

In this chapter, there are seven articles dealing with serious infectious and inflammatory diseases. Article 1 provides a cardiologist’s detailed account of limbic encephalitis, emphasizing the fluctuating cognitive and emotional symptoms due to hippocampal and amygdala involvement. Article 2 offers insights from a neurologist on a unique presentation of autoimmune limbic encephalitis that affected him. Article 3 shares a physician’s personal journey with autoimmune encephalitis, highlighting the condition’s significant impact on mental well-being. Article 4 focuses on a psychiatrist’s challenging experience with COVID-19-related delirium and the lingering effects of long COVID. Article 5 discusses a doctor’s delirium episode following COVID-19, which included a period in intensive care. Article 6 reports another doctor’s experience with delirium, which followed a presumed meningitis infection. Finally, Article 7 is a gripping story of survival from a psychiatrist who battled streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
Books by doctors/scientists recounting their personal experience of multiple sclerosis
Authors: Kapur Narinder , Bell Vaughan , Friedland Daniel , Kemp Steven
Published: January 2025

This chapter compiles six articles that provide a window into the varied experiences of those with multiple sclerosis (MS). Article 1 discusses a young postgraduate student in psychology grappling with the progressive form of MS, a variant less common than the typical relapsing–remitting type. Article 2 tells the story of a doctor who works as both an oncologist and a haematologist, and whose long history with MS intersects poignantly with personal loss. Article 3 is about a young lady who has a master’s in public health and works in a university setting. She describes the unique challenges in facing MS as a Pakistani-American, providing insights into the challenges of having a condition more prevalent in Western countries. Article 4 reveals how an obstetrician and gynaecologist navigates her professional duties while managing MS symptoms. Article 5 presents a physician’s account of living with MS and the complexities of treatment. Finally, Article 6 features a medical researcher’s reflections on the profound impact of good communication, or the lack thereof, in the journey with MS.
Epilepsy, my experience. The impact of compassion and hope amidst stigma and suicide
Authors: Laura A.
Published: January 2025

This chapter assembles four articles that delve into the personal experiences of those with epilepsy. Article 1 presents a family doctor’s narrative, highlighting the role of compassion and hope in confronting epilepsy-related stigma and low mood. Article 2 offers the reflections of a medical student on the stigma surrounding epilepsy and the complexities of disclosing such a diagnosis. Article 3 chronicles a paediatrician’s journey with epilepsy, from the early onset of complex partial seizures, to the diagnosis of hippocampal sclerosis, to surgical intervention, and then to dealing with career progression.
'The People' vs. the Liberal International Order?
Authors: Koch Cédric M.
Published: January 2025

Why have populists been on the rise across liberal democracies since the 1980s? And, given their radical but diverse challenges of democracies and the liberal international order (LIO), which variety of populism gains under which conditions? Rather than emphasizing populists as a cause of the crises of liberal order, this book argues that the historical empowerment of liberal international institutions itself gradually undermined democratic legitimacy perceptions among citizens and thereby boosted varieties of populism. Moving beyond theoretical accounts and bridging comparative politics and international relations, it presents comparative evidence from survey data, party manifestos, societal data, and international institutional power across up to thirty-seven democracies between 1980 and 2019, using both statistical analyses and a comparative case study of eight states in the EU to support its claims. Accounting for existing economic, cultural, domestic political, and supply-side explanations, the book shows that normative political evaluations relating to international institutions contributed to gains for populist challengers across the spectrum in recent decades. But while evidence shows that the populist radical left’s (PRL) inclusionary populism does not challenge the LIO as an authoritarian and nationalist threat in contrast to the populist radical right (PRR), greater demand for the PRR’s distinctive ideology and more competition by (non-)populist parties explain why the PRL gained less in practice from processes of democratic legitimacy depletion in the LIO. Populism by itself thus seems unable to form a cosmopolitan democratic corrective in the new international politics of democratic legitimacy where alternative institutional trajectories now compete for citizen acceptance.
Creating Its Own Enemies?
Authors: Koch Cédric M.
Published: January 2025

This chapter develops the book’s main theoretical arguments, which explain why populism gained across many democracies in recent decades and which variety of populism gains under which conditions. It argues that self-undermining dynamics in the liberal international order (LIO) built over recent decades contributed to weakening democratic legitimacy perceptions among citizens over time. Since these dynamics boosted populists and are triggered by institutional features that are inherent to its liberal normative roots, the rise of the LIO itself contributed to gains for its own populist challengers. Second, the chapter argues that which populism gains from these processes depends on the type of democratic legitimacy depletion which liberal IIs amplify, as well as the strategic contestation of populist parties and their competitors in electoral politics. Ultimately, these factors predict that the populist radical right enjoys an asymmetric advantage over the populist radical left to mobilize endogenous democratic legitimacy depletion in the LIO.
‘The People’ vs. the LIO?
Authors: Koch Cédric M.
Published: January 2025

This chapter operationalizes and empirically studies how varieties of populism challenge liberal and democratic principles in the liberal international order (LIO). It first develops observable implications about how the mechanism of democratic legitimacy depletion may normatively vary across types of populism at the individual and party level to present either an authoritarian nationalist threat or a cosmopolitan democratic corrective. These expectations are then tested using survey data on citizens from up to thirty-seven liberal democracies between 1996 and 2017 as well as using case study evidence from populist party manifestos in an EU subsample. Results corroborate the key distinction between exclusionary and inclusionary types of populism including regarding international institutions. But they also provide further evidence that inclusionary populism on the radical left is disadvantaged to exploit democratic legitimacy depletion in the LIO, so that the rise of populism overall pushes the LIO more strongly towards nationalist authoritarianism rather than cosmopolitan democratization.
Introduction
Authors: Tse Peter Ulric
Published: January 2025

The central question I seek to answer is this: What are the ultimate sources of human freedom, creativity, and meaning-making? My main thesis is that these capacities arise most fundamentally within internally generated virtual realities of our own creation, in which the laws of physics do not operate and virtually anything is possible. In other words, free will is most deeply rooted in the mental and neural operations that afford imagination, especially when these harness chance, constrained by our prior intentions. We can then try to implement the results of our imaginative deliberations, as the Wright brothers finally managed to do at Kitty Hawk, thereby altering material reality to suit our visions.