What is a neurological disease? Definition is not as simple as it might seem.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/brain/awaf337 and PMC identifier 12677015.
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Abstract
Defining neurological disease is less objective than often assumed. Simon Shorvon considers how confusion between symptoms and disease, shifting criteria, unstable classifications, and complex aetiology can undermine the medical model, while labels can have profound social and personal implications the model tends to ignore.