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Sudden Religious Conversions in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Kenneth Dewhurst, +1 more
- 01 Nov 1970 - 
- Vol. 117, Iss: 540, pp 497-507
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In this article, the conversion experiences of various mystics and saints who were probably epileptic are reviewed and some theological and psychiatric aspects of religion are discussed, including conversion experiences in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
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Six cases of religious conversion experiences occurring in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy are described. The conversion experiences of various mystics and saints, who were probably epileptic, are reviewed. Some theological and psychiatric aspects of religion are discussed.

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Meditation States and Traits: EEG, ERP, and Neuroimaging Studies.

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Quantitative Analysis of Interictal Behavior in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

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The schizophrenialike psychoses of epilepsy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether the purely coincidental combination of epilepsy and schizophrenia, each of them relatively common disorders, would be sufficiently frequent to make such a collection possible, and concluded that in the bulk of cases the combination cannot be randomly determined.
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Etiology and Pathogenesis of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

TL;DR: The pathological findings in 100 consecutive patients with epilepsy submitted to a unilateral temporal lobectomy are recorded, and their origin and their significance are discussed.
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