"God has sent me to you": Right temporal epilepsy, left prefrontal psychosis.
Epilepsy & Behavior May 10, 2016 Shahar Arzy, Roey Schurr
Religious experiences have long been documented in patients with epilepsy, though their exact underlying neural mechanisms are still unclear. Here, we had the rare opportunity to record a delusional religious conversion in real time in a patient with right temporal lobe epilepsy undergoing continuous video-EEG. In this patient, a messianic revelation experience occurred several hours after a...
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2016.04.022 (opens in new tab)
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Humans
Epilepsy, temporal lobe
Seizures
Magnetic resonance imaging
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