The idiosyncratic aspects of the epilepsy of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 531-538

  Hughes, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aura; Dostoevsky; Ecstasy; Epilepsy; Fits; Limbic; Personality; Seizures; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; COMPULSION; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC AURA; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC RISK; HEREDITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; NONHUMAN; OBSESSION; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; POVERTY; PRISON; PROGENY; REVIEW; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STRESS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WRITING;

EID: 27744478489     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.07.021     Document Type: Article

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