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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Ecstatic Seizures (So‐Called Dostoevsky Epilepsy)
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The polygraphic pattern of an ecstatic seizure is recorded for the first time and it is confirmed that this kind of seizure may be an expression of a temporal lobe epilepsy.Abstract:
Summary: The present report documents for the first time the polygraphic pattern of an ecstatic seizure and confirms that this kind of seizure may be an expression of a temporal lobe epilepsy.read more
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Meditation States and Traits: EEG, ERP, and Neuroimaging Studies.
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The neural substrates of religious experience.
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Behavioral, Psychotic, and Anxiety Disorders in Epilepsy: Etiology, Clinical Features, and Therapeutic Implications
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Spirituality and Religion in Epilepsy
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TL;DR: Clinical observations during the past 150 years support an association between religious experiences during (ictal), after, and in between (interictal) seizures, and a "pathological" increase in interictal religiosity in some patients.
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The Neuroscience of Religious Experience
TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of self and religion is discussed in terms of the self-transformation as a key function of performance of religious practices and its evolution through spirit possession.
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Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky's involuntary contribution to the sympotomatology and prognosis of epilepsy. William G. Lennox Lecture, 1977.
TL;DR: The Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is by far the most interesting of these three epileptic geniuses and the authors have much more detailed knowledge of his epilepsy than of Van Gogh's or Flaubert's, or indeed than of the majority of patients studied in the most specialized hospital centers.