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Temporal Clustering of Acute Neurological Disorders: Testing the Clinical Impression of Diagnostic 'Theme Shifts'

2026-08-31

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<h4>Background: </h4> On-call clinicians frequently report the anecdotal impression of 'theme shifts' during which specific acute neurological diagnoses appear to cluster. Whether such clustering reflects a statistically true and reproducible phenomenon has not been systematically investigated; the present paper examines seasonality and temporal clustering within six different acute neurological conditions. <h4>Me...

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Literature Corpus work: 2741af36-a011-5a4a-8d87-3a6640984718
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.28.26361586

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