This article, written by Sidhesh Phaldessai, provides an overview of geriatric psychopharmacology, including the epidemiology of mental health disorders in the older population, the physiological changes that occur with ageing and their impact on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and the use of psychotropic medications in older adults
Coughs on film and the fine but deadly art of foreshadowing doom
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Coughs on film and the fine but deadly art of foreshadowing doom
Monday 29 June 2020, 03:31 PM
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Since Garbo in Camille (1936) the onscreen cough has been a bad omen
Australia academic Simon Weaving finds much can be read into a cough on screen but in a time of COVID is it
time to lay this old trope to rest?
Movie characters – like Greek heroes – are typically faster, stronger, braver and better looking than those of us in the audience who stare on in admi
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This article is an abridged version of an article published from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article at https://bit.ly/3dlMvp3