Epilepsy

EPILEPSY, med. jur. A disease of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with
uncertain intervals between them.
2. These paroxysms are characterized by the loss of sensation, and
convulsive motions of the muscles. When long continued and violent, this
disease is very apt to end in dementia. (q.v.) It gradually destroys the
memory, and impairs the intellect, and is one of the causes of an unsound
mind. 8 Ves. 87. Vide Dig. 50, 16, 123; Id. 21, 1, 4, 5.

Saver and Rabin proposed that pointers toward the neural correlates of religious or spiritual experience can be found in studies of neural pathology (disease) such as those that accompany temporal lobe epilepsy, near-death experiences and drug-induced hallucinations.

Today, he would probably be diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, the best-understood cause of hypergraphia, Vincent van Gogh painted feverishly and turned out long letters to his brother Theo daily, exhibiting the incredible drive that is a component .

Before that, however, she was a pre-Vatican II nun who left her order, a student and teacher of English literature who was refused an advanced degree by Oxford University, a television writer and personality, and a sufferer of temporal lobe epilepsy, which went undiagnosed until she was in her 30s.

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