I attended this years annual American Academy of Neurology meeting in Vancouver and Susan Schneider Williams talked briefly at one of the plenary sessions. Her speech was shorter than what was in this text and yet had a similar message.

It was pleasant overall as it gave the plenary session that day a more humane feel. It is very easy to get wrapped up in the biochemical underpinnings of diseases and all the hype of the clinical trials being presented. We were reminded briefly of how their is a person behind all those symptoms and how the condition can affect the family as well.