Dementia and case law

The population in Sweden is rapidly growing, with an increasing proportion of elderly people. In the final stage of life, many of them suffer from dementia. The growing proportion of elderly people requires new drugs, which in turn require new research on dementia, among other things. What legal considerations are...

Clues can awaken hidden memories

The scent of a madeleine dipped in lime blossom tea awakened a flood of childhood memories for the main character in Marcel Proust’s famous novel about ‘lost time’. The madeleine is an example of a clue for the memory. In Proust’s case, the clue worked subconsciously, in other cases we...