David Eagleman Quotes:
Ocupation: Neuroscientist
Life: b. April 25, 1971
Birthday: April 25
If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.
topic: Religious, Sweet, Writing, Epilepsy, Epileptics, Seizures, Hearing Voices
