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”Dual pathology” and the significance of surgical outcome in “Dostoewsky epilepsy“ Volume 2, numéro 1, Mars 2000

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Dept. of Neurological Surgery, 428 CSB Medical University of South Carolina, 96 Jonathan Lucas St., Charleston, SC, 29425 USA.
  • Page(s) : 21-6
  • Année de parution : 2000

Introduction Auras of a unique experience of "love and union" with the physical realm, described also as "ecstasy", often with mystical implications for the patient, have been documented in "less than a dozen cases" according to Morgan [1], who reported them in a patient harboring a right temporal lobe tumor who never had them again after the tumor was removed. Although very rare, "ecstasy" auras are well characterized, clearly recognizable [...]