%0 Journal Article %T Cross-cultural Differences in Dementia: Indian Etiquette of Honorifics %A Apoorva Pauranik %J Archive of "Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology". %D 2019 %R 10.4103/aian.AIAN_404_18 %X Dr. P., a musician, has been immortalized by the poet laureate of neurology, late Dr. Oliver Sacks, in his classical book of clinical tales ¡°The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.¡±[1] Dr. P. was that man, having prosopagnosia and other deficits due to posterior cortical atrophy variant of dementia. Dr. P. had preserved facility for music and conversation. He also had a strange evolution of his artistic skills in painting, changing from concrete or realistic to cubist and abstract. A few more similar case reports have speculated about the development of new networks and synapses in the face of the ongoing pathology of cellular apoptosis in dementia.[2 %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472237/