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Top Ten: 2021

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⭐️ Must have logged 50 movies in a year to attempt a top 10. ⭐️

My top 10 from ‘21,…

  • Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
  • The Music Never Stopped
  • Declaration of War
  • The Fountain
  • Phenomenon

Neurological Disease: Brain Tumor

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Films featuring characters with brain tumors.

⬅️ Stroke | 🧠 | Other ➡️

References: Widjicks, E. NeuroCinema.

  • Bad Boys: Ride or Die
  • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
  • Cuckoo
  • Emilia Pérez
  • It Ends with Us

Doctors: Physicians on Film (MDs not Who)

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Medical doctors as they appear in film, limited to theatrically released non-documentary feature film. Includes people clearly functioning as medical doctors…

  • Anora
  • Beau Is Afraid
  • True Spirit
  • Causeway
  • Nope

Neurological Disease: TBI

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Films featuring characters who sustain a significant, plot-relevant head injury. To be included here, the injury has to lead to…

  • A Complete Unknown
  • Mank
  • The Predator
  • A Late Quartet
  • Do You Really Want to Know?

Neurological Disease: Movement Disorders

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Films depicting characters with movement disorders, ranging from Parkinson Disease to Tourette’s syndrome and other tic disorders.

⬅️ Misdiagnosis |…

  • Better Man
  • The Father
  • Spirit Unforgettable
  • The Visit
  • Alive Inside

Neurological Disease: Dementia

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⬅️  | 🧠 | Epilepsy ➡️

References: Widjicks, E. NeuroCinema.

  • One Fine Morning
  • Augustine
  • The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Neurological Disease: Functional Disorder

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Films featuring characters with functional neurological disorders (FND). This is tricky, because FND can present like seizure, tremor, stroke or…

  • Nosferatu
  • Cuckoo
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • The Shining
  • The Exorcist

Neurological Disease: Misdiagnosis

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Films where a character is given a neurological diagnosis that turns out to be inaccurate. And I don’t mean where…

  • Ambulance
  • Leonor Will Never Die
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Concussion
  • Hippocrates

Doctors: Neurologist on Film

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Physicians who are either explicitly labeled as neurologists, or who perform typical clinical duties of a neurologist and aren’t identifying…

  • Mean Girls
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Hellboy
  • Shaun of the Dead

Top Ten: 2004

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⭐️ Must have logged 50 movies in a year to attempt a top 10. ⭐️

My top 10 from ‘04,…

  • The Dark Knight
  • Inception
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Forrest Gump

Doctors: Consult Service Movie Favs

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I run a Neurology Consult service at a teaching hospital, and to make sure I the residents and students…

  • Challengers
  • Frogman
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Eight Men Out
  • Babes in Toyland

Shout Out to Cincinnati!

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Movies that give a tip of the hat to the Queen City. I’ll accept anything that is set in Cinci,…