In fact, as I watched our hero, Garvey, mourn for his dead wife, who was not in fact dead, but had joined a silent, white linen-clad cult of compulsive smokers, it occurred to me that some of my favourite television has been morbid, unfathomable, beautifully filmed potential gubbins like The Leftovers.
And quite frankly, my life has been morbid and depressing not due to my own volition but due to the oppression I face.
A thread of self-deprecating humor transforms what could have been a morbid meditation on aging into a tale of common humanity.
More likely, my interest could have been called morbid curiosity.
The present results are consistent with studies reporting cognitive decline after delirium or inter-current illness where there have been pre-morbid assessments of cognition.
As we have used a cross-sectional study design, we cannot completely exclude the possibility that there may have been pre-morbid differences in fornix structure between the two groups.
Thinking back now, it may have been a little morbid to ask a sick, sweating, coughing actor with a bad back whether he sees himself going out like Vigoda, or emulating Sean Connery, Joe Pesci and Gene Hackman by walking away without a word.
Hence, MC4R-Ko mice rapidly develop a dramatic obese phenotype consecutive to hyperphagia [16], while mutations in the MC4R gene have been associated to morbid obesity in humans [17].
45 Furthermore, mutations in the MC4R gene that have been associated with morbid obesity have stronger effects in female subjects than male subjects.
"The depression reported could have been a co-morbid condition of underlying early stage disease".
