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Dr. Ella Harris : Take a seat. Please.
Mayor Tom Kane : [sits on a chair in the middle of a warehouse space]
Dr. Ella Harris : It's called Lewy Body. Abnormal microscopic amounts of protein depositing themselves on the nerve cells of your cerebral cortex in substantia nigra,
[pointing to her own head]
Dr. Ella Harris : here and here, destroying them over time. Atrophying the frontal and temporal lobes. It's rare. It's not Alzheimer's, it's not Parkinson's, but like them, degenerative progression is slow, irreversible, and there is no known cure. First your higher mental functions will deteriorate: orientation, intelligence, insight. Your speech will become unusual, nonsensical at times with unconscious repetition an loss of words. You'll experience increasingly severe visual hallucinations, paranoia, delusions. Depression is common, anxiety more so. Later as the disease advances you will see dystonic postures, muscle rigidity, tremors, loss of language, memory... Eventually you'll not be able to carry out simple daily tasks. Your body movements reduced drastically with fluctuating levels of unconsciousness lasting days to weeks - until death.
Mayor Tom Kane : How long?
Dr. Ella Harris : It's hard to say. Three, maybe five years. Could be more, could be less.
