An exploration of the interrelationships between neurology and literature, hence "neuroliterature". Both literary and clinical accounts share narrative structure, and the former may inform a clinician's understanding of the patient experience of disease.
Dr Larner has been a consultant neurologist based at the Walton Centre in Liverpool for nearly 20 years. He has an interest in medical history, gained the Diploma in the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries in 1995 and was subsequently a DHMSA examiner, and is currently the editor of the Journal of Medical Biography.