If An Epileptic Seizure Is Focused In A Particular Sweet Spot In The Temporal Lobe, A Person Won´t Have Motor Seizures, But Instead Something More Subtle. The Effect Is Something Like A Cognitive Seizure, Marked By Changes Of Personality, Hyperreligiosity (an Obsession With Religion And Feelings Of Religious Certainity), Hypergraphia (extensive Writing On A Subject, Usually About Religion), The False Sense Of An External Presence, And, Often, The Hearing Voices That Are Attributed To A God. Some Fraction Of History´s Prophets, Martyrs, And Leaders Appear To Have Had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
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If An Epileptic Seizure Is Focused In
David Eagleman
If An Epileptic Seizure Is Focused In A Particular Sweet Spot In The Temporal Lobe, A Person Won´t Have Motor Seizures, But Instead Something More Subtle. The Effect Is Something Like A Cognitive Seizure, Marked By Changes Of Personality, Hyperreligiosity (an Obsession With Religion And Feelings Of Religious Certainity), Hypergraphia (extensive Writing On A Subject, Usually About Religion), The False Sense Of An External Presence, And, Often, The Hearing Voices That Are Attributed To A God. Some Fraction Of History´s Prophets, Martyrs, And Leaders Appear To Have Had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
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