The Art of Epilepsy http://artofepilepsy.com Representations of Epilepsy in Art and Culture Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:17:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Seeing God in the Third Millennium – Thoughts on Seizure and Religious Experience http://artofepilepsy.com/2012/12/13/seeing-god-in-the-third-millennium-thoughts-on-seizure-and-religious-experience/ http://artofepilepsy.com/2012/12/13/seeing-god-in-the-third-millennium-thoughts-on-seizure-and-religious-experience/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:17:49 +0000 Editor http://artofepilepsy.com/?p=725 Oliver Sachs reflects on ecastatic seizures in the Atlantic. He acknowledges that “Ecstatic seizures are rare — they only occur in something like 1 or 2 percent of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.” This is not how most people experience seizures at all. But it is intesting to know about.

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]]> http://artofepilepsy.com/2012/03/24/yoga-and-seizures/feed/ 0 Narcolepsy is Not Epilepsy… But It’s Interesting in a Similar Way http://artofepilepsy.com/2012/03/10/narcolepsy-is-not-epilepsy-but-its-interesting-in-a-similar-way/ http://artofepilepsy.com/2012/03/10/narcolepsy-is-not-epilepsy-but-its-interesting-in-a-similar-way/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:13:17 +0000 Editor http://artofepilepsy.com/?p=713 [...]]]> Here’s an article exploring dating when you have narcolepsy. Apparently narcolepsy is associated with a different part of the brain from epilepsy and is much rarer. But the challenges described here seem related to the challenges of living with epilepsy.

Dating with narcolepsy: Romance is hard for everyone — particularly when you have a condition that makes you mysteriously collapse

]]> http://artofepilepsy.com/2012/03/10/narcolepsy-is-not-epilepsy-but-its-interesting-in-a-similar-way/feed/ 0 The New York Times on “What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy” http://artofepilepsy.com/2012/03/08/the-new-york-times-on-what-happened-to-the-girls-in-le-roy/ http://artofepilepsy.com/2012/03/08/the-new-york-times-on-what-happened-to-the-girls-in-le-roy/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:21:25 +0000 Editor http://artofepilepsy.com/?p=710 This story in the New York Times is definitely not about epilepsy. But it is about seizures, an epidemic of them, with no apparent organic cause, among girls at a high school. Interesting.

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