Mona read the same sentence at least five times. She rubbed her eyes and let her fingertips hover over the pressure points of her skull. She tried to imagine her brain as the writer of the article would see it: skin pulled back on a slab to reveal the frontal lobe. In one of the articles on ownership Dr. Conlin had given her, the author discussed an obscure disease called Diogenes Syndrome, named after the Greek citizen who lived in a glass jar. The syndrome was characterized by an obsessive need to hoard (often items with little to no value, like garbage or stray animals), depression, sometimes catatonia, and extreme self-neglect. The syndrome appeared more frequently in those with frontal lobe injuries.
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