Epilepsy and Ecstatic Experiences: The Role of the Insula.
Brain Sciences October 22, 2021 Fabienne Picard, Peter Bossaerts, Fabrice Bartolomei
Ecstatic epilepsy is a rare form of focal epilepsy in which the aura (beginning of the seizures) consists of a blissful state of mental clarity/feeling of certainty. Such a state has also been described as a "religious" or mystical experience. While this form of epilepsy has long been recognized as a temporal lobe epilepsy, we have accumulated evidence converging toward the location of the...