What is "epileptic"

Usage examples of "epileptic".

Alas, the brief popularity of this idea could not survive the demonstration that long-term memories persisted even if the total electrical activity of the brain was disrupted, by epileptic fits or electroconvulsive shock, for instance, or was brought virtually to zero by coma or concussion.

The number of subscribers dropped, debts piled up, and his epileptic fits became more serious.

And when a character does not die, when he or she is neither consumptive, nor epileptic, nor hysterical, nor paranoid, nor schizophrenic, nor alcoholic, nor a sick prostitute, nor a sexual pervert, there is still evidence of morbid behaviour: sudden pallor, vivid blushes, burning eyes, trembling and fits, swoons.

The first, which ended with the appearance, in convict prison, of generalised epileptic fits, was that of creative interrogation faced with the fact of illness.

One man, later found to have a scarred temporal lobe in association with hemangioma, killed his wife while in a state of epileptic furor.

Cousins mentions an individual of hemorrhagic diathesis who succumbed to extensive extravasation of blood at the base of the brain, following a slight fall during an epileptic convulsion.

We abjure Allah as a superstition fostered by an epileptic Meccan camel driver.

The Ephemerides records a birth as having occurred during asphyxia, and also one during an epileptic attack.

My Lord Southdown, her late husband, an epileptic and simple-minded nobleman, was in the habit of approving of everything which his Matilda did and thought.

The glowing ecstasy of Myshkin during the epileptic aura carries him towards infinity and eternity, like the visions of the Golden Age granted to Stavrogin, Versilov and the Ridiculous man.

Meanwhile, the philosopher Seneca was giving Nero the best education available in Rome, while Agrippina launched rumors that Britannicus was an epileptic and slowly going insane.

On the other hand, Penfield has found that electrical stimulation deep into and below the temporal lobe in the neocortex and limbic complex can produce a waking state in epileptics very similar to that of dreams denuded of their symbolic and fantastic aspects.

It was a technique associated especially with the Montreal neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, and in its early period at least, in the 1950s, required that the site of the epileptic focus be identified by exposing the surface of the brain and then probing it with electrodes through which current could be passed so as to stimulate electrically the cells with which they came into contact.

Colryn wanted to explain it away as an epileptic fit or something of that sort, that was all right with him and probably a saner explanation than whatever it really was.

The unexpected and welcome result was that the frequency and intensity of the seizures declined dramatically in both hemispheres-as if there had previously been a positive feedback, with the epileptic electrical activity in each hemisphere stimulating the other through the corpus callosum.