retrospective diagnosis

But we can only go so far with retrospective diagnosis.

Now a new study turns that speculation into a retrospective diagnosis.

Several aspects are in discordance with this retrospective diagnosis.

But Wittgenstein has frequently been categorized, in recent retrospective diagnoses, as autistic.

The practice of retrospective diagnosis has been mocked in parody, where characters from fiction are "diagnosed".

Retrospective diagnosis is practised by medical historians, general historians and the media with varying degrees of scholarship.

From this, it can be concluded that his disorder was most likely schizophrenia, although retrospective diagnoses should be treated with caution.

List of people with epilepsy (includes notes on retrospective diagnosis and misdiagnosis of historical figures)

Attempts to test this hypothesis confront the problem of retrospective diagnosis and the availability of archival records in the eighteenth-century.

These features led to the retrospective diagnosis of low grade MALT lymphoma.

Since the mid-19th Century, retrospective diagnosis of pericarditis has been made upon the finding of adhesions of the pericardium.

She died at 41 of either Hodgkin's disease or more likely Addison's disease, as far as retrospective diagnosis can determine.

Historical descriptions of people or characters are sometimes noted in discussions of psychopathy, with claims of superficial resemblance or retrospective diagnosis.

The mental illness exhibited by King George III in the regency crisis of 1788 has inspired several attempts at retrospective diagnosis.

A 2003 retrospective diagnosis of Roosevelt's paralytic illness favored Guillain-Barré syndrome rather than polio, a conclusion criticized by other researchers.

He observes that Eysenck provides a conflicting account of what malady Anna O. suffered from, and that establishing any retrospective diagnosis with certainty is difficult.

British poet, essayist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson is an example of a historical figure with a retrospective diagnosis of OCD.

The majority of Austen biographers rely on Dr. Vincent Cope's tentative 1964 retrospective diagnosis and list her cause of death as Addison's disease.

Crude attempts at retrospective diagnosis fail to be sensitive to historical context, may treat historical and religious records as scientific evidence, or ascribe pathology to behaviours that require none.

The term retrospective diagnosis is also sometimes used by a clinical pathologist to describe a medical diagnosis in a person made some time after the original illness has resolved or after death.

Scholars acknowledge that it is difficult to make retrospective diagnoses of leprosy from symptoms described in ancient writings, but believe that Hippocrates discussed leprosy in 460 BC.

A retrospective diagnosis (also retrodiagnosis or posthumous diagnosis) is the practice of identifying an illness after the death of the patient, sometimes in a historical figure using modern knowledge, methods and disease classifications.

Retrospective diagnoses of historical figures such as Einstein and Tesla (who lived before autism diagnosis was widespread or even existed) are used as examples of major contributions to art, science, and culture.

A retrospective diagnosis of polio is considered to be strong due to the detailed account Scott later made, and the resultant lameness of his left leg had an important effect on his life and writing.

There have been published many speculative retrospective diagnoses of autism of historical figures who may have had autism spectrum disorders, for example Henry Cavendish, one of history's foremost scientists, may have been autistic.