It has probably been described for the first time in 1605 by the French philosopher and scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609).[3] Later publications were, in the eighteenth century, among others, by the German physician Samuel Schaarschmidt,[4] in the nineteenth century 1823 by the British physician John C. Cooke,[5] 1881 by the British neurologist and epileptologist William Richard Gowers,[6] as well as in 1913 by the Russian neurologist, clinical neurophysiologist and psychiatrist Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev.[7] In 1937 the British neurologist Macdonald Critchley coined the term for the first time[8] and classified it as a form of reflex epilepsy.[9]