Numinous-like auras and spirituality in persons with partial seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 640-644

  Dolgoff Kaspar, Rima ^a,b   Ettinger, Alan B ^c   Golub, Sarit A ^b   Perrine, Kenneth ^d   Harden, Cynthia ^e   Croll, Susan D ^b  

^a Institute for Social Research and the Daniel Katz Distinguished   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Neurological Surgery PC   (United States)

^d LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociative; Experiential aura; Partial epilepsy; Personality; Religious; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPERSONALIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DREAMING; EXPRESSIONS OF SPIRITUALITY REVISED; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPERRELIGIOSITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; METAPHYSICS; NUMINOUS LIKE AURA; PHENOMENOLOGY; PLEASURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952566682     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02957.x     Document Type: Article

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