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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Yojimbos
| Lucas Hardwick |
Three Outlaw Samurai plays at the Trylon Cinema from Sunday, August 13th, through Tuesday, August 15th. Visit for tickets and more information.
Way back in cable television’s Mesozoic era—when networks like the Independent Film Channel showed, you know, independent films, in the wee hours of Saturday morning right as Friday night’s winos and third-shifters were drifting off to sleep—one could turn on the TV to IFC and find a stretch of programming called Samurai Saturdays. The lucky few who stumbled upon this refined block of entertainment (because no one has ever been awake this early at their own free will on a Saturday), would discover a piece of world cinema waiting for them in the form of Japanese samurai films.
I recall waking during this rarefied time one such Saturday for work or some other silly responsibility and flipping on the TV to unearth a piece of what I came to know as Aki
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Abstract
Background/Aim
Mutations in MAPT cause frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP). Patients with the MAPT RW mutation were reported to show phenotypic heterogeneity in different ethnic backgrounds. We here report the clinical and genetic characteristics of Japanese families with the RW mutation.
Methods
We examined the clinical and neuroimaging features of 6 patients from three families with the RW mutation. We determined the genotypes of intragenic MAPT single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the flanking microsatellite markers to search for a common founder.
Results
The initial symptom was memory loss with the average age at onset being 54 years. Anterograde amnesia with episodic memory impairment was the predominant phenotype. Behavioral and personality changes or parkinsonism is not a prominent feature. A brain MRI study revealed marked atrophy of the medial temporal lobe. Genetic analysis of SNPs and microsatellite markers r
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