Cross-cultural Differences in Dementia: Indian Etiquette of Honorifics

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