Dostoevsky's epilepsy: A new approach to retrospective diagnosis

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 557-570

  Rayport, Shirley M Ferguson ^a   Rayport, Mark ^a   Schell, Carolyn A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dostoevsky; Ecstatic aura; Freud's theories of mental structure; Temporolimbic epilepsy; Temporolimbic epilepsy surgery; The Idiot

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AMNESIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEJA VU; DEPRESSION; DYSLEXIA; EPILEPSY; GUILT; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; MANIA; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; PARANOIA; PATIENT MONITORING; RELIGION; SEIZURE; TEMPOROLIMBIC EPILEPSY;

EPILEPSY; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 80055005723     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.07.027     Document Type: Article

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