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A 2019 study stated that audiences who watched The Good Doctor gathered a greater knowledge of autism than they would have from a college lecture on the subject. [11] Conversely, Autistic Doctors International founder Mary Doherty said that Murphy's portrayal was a "missed opportunity".
The 2015 TV series Jekyll & Hyde focuses on the illegitimate grandson of Henry Jekyll named Doctor Robert Jekyll who has inherited his grandfather's Hyde personality. While Robert is initially able to control his transformation with pills, as the series unfolds, he learns about various demonic threats to the world, and is forced to harness the ...
Phrenology is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. [ 3 ]
Several personality traits remain constant throughout the Doctor's incarnations, [20] most notably a disarming or mercurial surface, concealing a deep well of age, wisdom, melancholy, and darkness. This duality is explored more overtly in the revived series (2005–present), which has described him as "fire and ice and rage, he's like the night ...
A common stereotype of a mad scientist. The mad scientist (also mad doctor or mad professor) is a stock character of a scientist who is perceived as "mad, bad and dangerous to know" [1] or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments.
Gregory House is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of the American medical drama series House.Created by David Shore and portrayed by English actor Hugh Laurie, he leads a team of diagnosticians and is the Head of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey. [1]
Type A personality behavior was first described as a potential risk factor for heart disease in the 1950s by cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman.They credit their insight to an upholsterer who called to their attention the peculiar fact that the chairs in their waiting rooms were worn out only on the arms and on the front edge of the seat.
Other Big Five personality traits such as low extraversion, high agreeableness, low openness, and low neuroticism are linked to high conscientiousness. [4] Conscientiousness also appears in other models of personality, such as Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory, in which it is related to both self-directedness and persistence. [7]