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Inability to recognize objects, to feel pain … truth is stranger than fiction
Tourette syndrome, Huntington’s disease, visual agnosia … are classified as rare neurological diseases because their incidence is very unusual. The film and literature sometimes come to us through his characters. For example, the Millennium trilogy, one of the ‘best sellers’ more popular in recent years, describes a character who suffers from congenital analgesia. In the movie ‘Best … impossible ‘Jack Nicholson suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder more common than it may seem and’ Gigolo ‘, one of the quotes of the protagonist suffers coprolalia (involuntary tendency to utter obscenities), one of the more unusual manifestations of Tourette syndrome. There is even a fascinating book ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for his hat’, written by neurologist and psychiatrist Oliver Sacks, who has become a bestseller thanks to explain some of these amazing amenity disorders. But is there really people suffering from these diseases?

“I’ve never seen anyone with congenital analgesia or know of any neurologist who has treated a case, but it exists. This is an extremely rare disease,” explains neurologist 20minutos.es Juan Carlos Martinez, coordinator of the Group Study of Movement Disorders of the Spanish Society of Neurology.

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