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Progression in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: An Interview with Dr. Bruce Hermann | epilepsy.com - 0 views

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epilepsy temporal lobe psychology brain

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  • difficult to control with medication
  • epilepsy surgery may be curative for some people with TLE
  • increased rates of emotional-behavioral distress, or greater than age-expected changes in brain structure
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  • ersons with TLE (about 20-25%) exhibited poorer cognitive performance at their retesting. Most persons with TLE (75-80%) had largely stable mental status over time, but this subset of about 20-25% of persons with TLE is having greater difficulty in regard to cognition
  • Depression and anxiety are very common in patients with intractable epilepsy
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Affective aggression in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy - 0 views

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temporal lobe epilepsy brain psychology

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  • survey of 666 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, Currie and co-workers reported aggression in 7% of the patients
  • ictal, post-ictal and interictal aggression
  • Ictal and post-ictal aggression are often associated with confusion or psychosis
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  • seen in the context of an antisocial personality disorde
  • Interictal aggression
  • temporal lobe epilepsy is hippocampal sclerosis often in the context of mesial temporal sclerosis
  • emotional arousal typically seen in episodic dyscontrol
  • high level of arousal with signs of anxiety or fear
  • Episodic dyscontrol is characterized by several discrete episodes of failure to resist aggressive impulses that result in serious assaultive acts or destruction of property
  • elationship between temporolimbic epilepsy and aggressive behaviour
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Epilepsy - Diagnosis and Treatment at Mayo Clinic - 0 views

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CULT EXPERIENCE - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • negative characteristics exhibited by the former cult members studied, said Dr. Clark, are depression, guilt, fear, paranoia, slow speech, rigidity of facial expression and body posture, indifference to physical appearance, passivity and memory impairment.
  • The techniques of many cults fall under the general rubric of brainwashing
  • Dr. Singer, ''cult leaders and their trainers exert a systematic social influence that can produce great behavioral changes.''
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  • 'have taken techniques from the human-potential movement, from the encounter, sensitivitytraining and humanistic-psychology movements, and combined them with cult ideology and persuasive sales methods - and packaged them in various combinations.''
  • nationally is variously estimated at 300,000 to three million.
  • Dr. Singer estimates that there are 2,500 to 3,000 cults in the United States
  • United
  • Dr. Singer estimates that there are 2,500 to 3,000 cults in the United States
  • Whether or not a cult is destructive is determined by the morality of the cult leader and the nature of the leader's charismatic dream,
  • Not all cults are destructive, the researchers said, and many of those who join and remain in cults do so out of a sincere quest for religious connection.
  • Dr. Cath defined a cult as a group of people joined together by a common ideological system fostered by a charismatic leader
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      courtney galli on 01 May 13
       
      Temporal lobe epilepsy is a form of focal epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures.
  • ''the expectation is that they can transcend the imperfections and finitude of life.''
  • ''Often they set up a we-they philosophy: We have the truth and you do not.
  • ''Under the force of the conversion experience, people disappeared from their families and changed, sometimes after only a few days.''
  • More are male than female.
  • involves a vulnerable person
  • ''Cult recruiters frequent bus stations, airports, campuses, libraries, rallies, anywhere that unattached persons are likely to be passing through,''
  • Dr. Cath defined a cult as a group of people joined together by a common ideological system fostered by a charismatic leader
  • The symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy,'' said Dr. Clark, ''are similar to those seen or reported as resulting from cult conversions: increased irritability, loss of libido or altered sexual interest; ritualism, compulsive attention to detail, mystical states, humorlessness and sobriety, heightened paranoia.''
  • Dr. Cath said: ''Keeping devotees constantly fatigued, deprived of sensory input and suffering protein deprivation, working extremely long hours in street solicitation or in cult-owned businesses, engaging in monotonous chanting and rhythmical singing, may induce psychophysiological changes in the brain. The rhythmical movement of the body can lead to altered states of consciousness, and changes in the pressure or vibration pattern of the brain may affect the temporal lobe.''
  • ''cult-conversion syndrome'' represents an overload of the brain's ability to process information.
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Temporal lobe seizure - MayoClinic.com - 0 views

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temporal lobe seizure epilepsy brain

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  • euphoria to fear, deja vu, and hallucinations of taste or smell
  • anatomical defect or sca
  • esistant to anti-seizure medications
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  • if their seizures consistently begin in only one of their two temporal lobes
  • Surgery may be an optio
  • portion of the lobe is removed
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