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Edited By
Shirley Ferguson
Description
This book is devoted to the surgical treatment of epilepsy and its consequences, and provides an extraordinary perspective on the fascinating
question of the relationship between brain and mind. Contrary to the current emphasis on statistics and objectivity, this book is dedicated
to understanding the whole person, the life and experiences of the individual. It reports on cutting-edge technical skills provided
with a human touch. This book reflects the understanding that the temporolimbic seizure originates in tissue providing the substrate
for the emotional life and memory. Finally, it emphasizes the value of clinical research – here, conducted in the course of the diagnosis
and surgical treatment of epilepsy – in helping to elucidate the relationship between brain and mind.
Audience
Neuroscientists and neurologists.
Contents
Introduction
Phenomenology of Seizures
Clinical Findings in Patients Treated at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York,
during the 1960?s
Positive experiences
Negative experiences
The destructive nature of a so-called ?minor seizure?
Direct expression
of and handling of instinctual needs involving hunger, elimination, sexual and aggressive feelings as a seizure phenomenon or during
brain stimulation
Delayed response to an urge for elimination by hallucinatory experience on brain stimulation
Profile view of
the patients behavior over periods of weeks and months
Alteration of mood may occur with the sign shifted after a seizure.
The interictal
period
Disturbances occasioned by anatomical or functional loss of neurons may result in chronic organic mental impairment of varying
magnitude.
Psychotic features
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Hardbound, 168 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373667-3
ISBN-10: 0-12-373667-6
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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