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UC Irvine Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2019)

The poems that follow loosely collect and investigate place and displacement, ranging from suburban California, to rural Arkansas, to places imagined. These poems also interrogate place as it relates to language itself. Where does language belong, and which kinds? How (and why) is everything where it is? Using found text, allegory, ekphrastic, and memory, this collection weaves a collage of misplaced language - and by extension, poetry - across the disparate but deeply connected sense of where we are, who we are, and how we cope with the fallibility of description amidst global diaspora and impending displacement on global and spiritual scale.

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    UC San Francisco Previously Published Works (2016)
    A pathologic hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72 causes frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Behavioral abnormalities can also occur among mutation carriers with FTD, but it is uncertain whether such mutations occur among persons with psychoses per se. Among participants in a genetic study of psychoses (N=739), two pairs of related individuals had C9orf72 expansions, of whom three were diagnosed with schizophrenia (SZ) / schizoaffective disorder (SZA), but their clinical features did not suggest dementia or ALS. A few patients with SZ/SZA carry C9orf72 repeat expansions; such individuals are highly likely to develop FTD/ALS.
      Cover page: C9orf72 repeat expansions that cause frontotemporal dementia are detectable among patients with psychosis
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