by Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek (Princeton University Press, 2014), in which the authors
consider real disorders that could turn the living into the living dead.
«Patients who appear to have certain somatic
disorders — illnesses for which there is no detectable medical cause and which physicians may
consider to be imagined by the patient — may instead have a genetic propensity to develop a series of
real, related illnesses,» says Dr. Coplan, an expert in neuropsychopharmacology.