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Computed tomography axial sections of the patient's brain, at the level of the hippocampi (left panel) and inferior parietal lobes (right panel); the left hemisphere is shown on the right side of the image in both sections.
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Brain CT (MRI contraindicated) showed mild diffuse cerebral volume loss without disproportionate temporal lobe atrophy, and mild white matter ischemic changes (Figure 1).
Examples of verse produced by the patient (transcriptions follow). (A) To tidy out cupboards is morally wrong / I sing you this song, I tell you I'm right. / Each time that I've done it, thrown all out of sight, / I've regretted it. // Think of the treasures now lost to the world / Measureless gold, riches unfurled, / Diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds - you must have had them, / All tucked well away. / So // To tidy out cupboards, throw rubbish from sight / (Even the poems you write up at night) / Is morally wrong. / So I'm keeping this one. (B) My poems roams, / They has no homes / Yours', also, tours, / And never moors. // Why tie them up to pier or quay? / Better far, share them with me. // Prose - now, that's a different matter. / Rather more than just a natter. / Prose is earnest, prose is serious / Prose is lordly and imperious / Prose tells you, loud, clear, that / Life - life is dear.
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Her husband characterized them as "doggerel" because they were generally rhyming and often featured puns and other wordplay (examples in Figure 2).