Isolated Hyperreligiosity in a Patient with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Autor:	Rocio Garcia-Santibanez, Harini Sarva
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system RC346-429
Zdroj:	Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, Vol 2015 (2015)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2090-6668 2090-6676
DOI:	10.1155/2015/235856
Popis:	A 40-year-old man with history of temporal lobe epilepsy presented to the emergency department with hyperreligiosity after medication noncompliance. After medications were resumed, he returned to baseline. Many famous prophets are believed to have suffered epilepsy. Waxman and Geschwind described a group of traits in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy consisting of hyperreligiosity, hypergraphia, altered sexual behavior, aggressiveness, preoccupation with details, and circumstantiality. The incidence of religious experiences ranges from 0.3 to 3.1 percent in patients with epilepsy. Religious experiences can be ictal, interictal, or postictal. Treatment is aimed at the underlying seizure etiology.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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