What is "epileptics"

Usage examples of "epileptics".

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.

Because real epileptics are so common in the underworld, and their sufferings so palpable and striking, that parasites, even though afflicted themselves, nay, because of their own disabilities, can and do simulate the weird sufferings of epileptics.

For there epileptics abide or roam in all the horror of their lives "oft-times in water and oft-times in the fire," a burden to themselves, a danger to others.

The ancients did allow their epileptics to live in the tombs, but we allow them no place but prison, unless their friends have money!

That incarceration of epileptics in prison and their conviction as criminals is unjust and cruel.

These professionals emphasize that psychomotor epileptics are no more prone to criminal behavior than other individuals in society.

The overwhelming majority of psychomotor epileptics are not violent or sexually disturbed.

But in the meantime, I am concerned that I may have inadvertently hampered the attempts of well-controlled epileptics to function in a society that still retains a lingering prejudice against epilepsy.

Nevertheless, the more famous epileptics did succeed in persuading other people to see their fits as having a mystical aura.

Other epileptics develop their self-destructive side, as was the case with van Gogh.

These experiences have been reported almost exclusively by epileptics, and it is possible, although it has by no means been demonstrated, that non-epileptics are, under similar circumstances, subject to comparable perceptual reminiscences.

The comparison is even more striking when we realize that epileptics, suffering from a psychomotor seizure, often go through an exactly comparable set of activities, the only difference being perhaps that they run a few more red lights than I usually do, but have no conscious memory of having performed these actions once the seizure has subsided.

And we’ve long known that the limbic system might be one of the keys: some epileptics with seizures restricted to the limbic system have incredibly profound religious experiences.

Saint Paul, Joan of Arc, Saint Theresa of Avila, and Emanuel Sweden-borg were all probably epileptics, too.

Temporal-lobe epileptics report voices, a divine presence, euphoria, and auras.