Sarcasm useful for detecting dementia

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

This is something to keep in mind while reading DU.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2428/sarcasm-useful-detecting-dementia

Sarcasm useful for detecting dementia
Monday, 15 December 2008
Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY: Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but Australian scientists are using it to diagnose dementia, according to a new study.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic.

The authors say that the study, published in the journal Brain, helps explain why patients with the condition behave the way they do and why, they are unable to pick up their caregivers' moods.

Empathy issues

"This is significant because if caregivers are angry, sad or depressed, the patient won't pick this up. It is often very upsetting for family members," said John Hodges, the senior author of the paper. (more at link)

[endarkenment]

1. says you

[riqster]

3. Yeah, right. nt

[rucky]

9. no, says the article.

I don't understand your comment.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. This article is useless!

[ananda]

4. umm

Sarcasm isn't always immediately detectible.

[mikelgb]

8. better get a checkup...

from the neck up

[hlthe2b]

5. Sarcasm aside... that would include all RW'ers...

Regardless of age..



I'll just end with a note that that is such an insult to such a large swath of the populace....

[otohara]

16. LOL - But Oh So True

no sense from humor from those on the right. There's a reason why there are so few comedians who are wingnuts.

[peace frog]

6. A likely story

Feh!

[unpossibles]

7. There may be a similar problem with the ability of freepers to detect satire

I could be wrong though.

That's an interesting link though, to be more serious.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Which is why I never use the :sarcasm: smiley.

I don't feel the need to spoon-feed the demented.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in memory

as the wish to forget it.

[Dukkha]

this thread is off the scale!

[TlalocW]

12. Ooooh, the great Australian researchers have deemed it necessary

To come down from their ivory towers and tell us mere mortals about sarcasm.... Ooooh, I'm so honored - really. Let me record this day in my personal journal as the greatest day of my life!

TlalocW

[rug]

13. I don't get it.

[EstimatedProphet]

14. I thought puns were supposed to be the lowest form of wit.

Idiot that wrote that article can't even get facts straight. Why should I believe what it says?

[Deja Q]

18. No, FOX cable's version of "The Daily Show" was the lowest form of wit.

Nobody laughed.

Even "Friends" got laughter and you can't get much lower than that.

[Mojorabbit]

15. I have a friend

who has mild Aspergers. She takes every thing said at face value.

[Deja Q]

17. And autism, Asperger's Syndrome, sexual interest, et cetera, et cetera...

Who funded that joke of a study and WHY? Sounds like somebody wants to hire a bunch of jerky 'caregivers' and put them toward the least socially acute of patients, regardless of cause, so nobody will be any the wiser.

At least it's a definite maybe, perhaps...

[RaleighNCDUer]

19. So in other words, right wingism is a form of dementia.

I've always suspected it.

[Ichingcarpenter]

21. Conservapedia: Warns about being able to detect Satire and the truth

http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:How_can_we_protect_Conservapedia_by_distinguishing_real_conservative_encyclopedia_articles_from_satires_written_by_liberals

[baldguy]

25. Wait ... Conservapedia *isn't* satire?

:o

[Ichingcarpenter]

26. Its either satire or dementia

I can't figure it out these days since Conservapedia doesn't take its meds

[BrklynLiberal]

22. It seems so obvious. Right?

;)

[QueenOfCalifornia]

20. This

explains a lot around the DU.

:rofl:

[asthmaticeog]

23. Yeah, I totaly care about your little linked article.

:eyes:

[undeterred]

24. Well, I knew it had to be useful for something.

:sarcasm: