LBD: "The Terrorist Inside My Husband's Brain"
Posted on 2016.10.01 at 21:05The Terrorist Inside Robin Williams’ Brain
The journal Neurology published a unique and touching paper today: it’s by artist Susan Schneider Williams, the widow of actor Robin Williams, who died by suicide in August 2014. It’s titled The terrorist inside my husband’s brain, the ‘terrorist’ being Lewy Body disease (LBD), the neurodegenerative disorder that, as Schneider Williams recounts, destroyed his life.
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