epilepsy

He also draws on his own experience of epilepsy to explore the fear of mental disintegration, having written to his doctor in 1867 that he was “afraid of going mad or falling into idiocy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

To investigate what happens inside the unconscious brain, Sheth, who is also a neurosurgeon at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, and his colleagues studied patients undergoing epilepsy surgery while under general anesthesia.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

She has never been diagnosed with an underlying seizure disorder, such as epilepsy, and a medical test to provoke a seizure in Linton after the crash came back with no abnormal brain activity, prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

A U.S.-based chain of medbed operators called Tesla BioHealing has been flagged by federal regulators for claiming that its “Life Force Energy” treatments can cure stroke paralysis, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, and terminal cancer.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ever since then, the dove has been able to give epilepsy to humans.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Still, about 30% of epilepsies do not respond to pharmaceuticals, which prompted the search for alternative treatments.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

Indeed, many epilepsies resemble a perverse imitation of normal activity for a given brain structure — and these lead to some of the distinctions between the pathology and activity associated with different epileptic disorders.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

The mechanism underlying seizures known as absence epilepsies is rather different.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

Investigation of the content of the consciousness of the different kinds of epilepsies from this point of view will doubtless bring to light some interesting information.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.