Dostoevsky's Medical History: Diagnosis and Dialectic

Rice, James L.

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“…More generally, auditory hallucinations may be classified as simple (hearing a monotone sound such as humming or buzzing as in tinnitus) and complex (hearing voices or music), in which case they can be defined as auditory verbal hallucinations (3). On this basis, it has also been proposed that several historical figures were affected by epilepsy with auditory hallucinations (4,5), including Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose known epilepsy might have first manifested in childhood with verbal hallucinations, as illustrated in his autobiographical work "The Peasant Marey" (5).…”

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Epilepsy With Auditory Features: From Etiology to Treatment

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Epilepsy with auditory features (EAF) is a focal epilepsy belonging to the focal epileptic syndromes with onset at variable age according to the new ILAE Classification. It is characterized by seizures with auditory aura or receptive aphasia suggesting a lateral temporal lobe involvement of the epileptic discharge. Etiological factors underlying EAF are largely unknown. In the familial cases with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance several genes have been involved, among which the first discovered, LGI1, was thought to be predominant. However, increasing evidence now points to a multifactorial etiology, as familial and sporadic EAF share a virtually identical electro-clinical characterization and only a few have a documented genetic etiology. Patients with EAF usually have an unremarkable neurological examination and a good response to antiseizure medications. However, it must be underscored that total remission might be lower than expected and that treatment withdrawal might lead to relapses. Thus, a proper understanding of this condition is in order for better patient treatment and counseling. Further studies are still required to further characterize the many facets of EAF.

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“Bodies That Matter”: Living in the Nineteenth Century

Lekka

2014

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

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The Covert Design ofThe Brothers Karamazov:Alesha's Pathology and Dialectic

Rice

2009

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A future revolutionary, Alesha Karamazov is, at nineteen, an inexperienced boy who lives in a monastery and who has been considered strange since birth. Fedor Dostoevskii endows him with hysteria—then a serious psychopathology with convulsions that were clinically seen as analogous to epilepsy, the morbus sacer from which Dostoevskii himself suffered. Recognized as an epidemic problem, hysteria in this novel is elaborately deployed as a symbol of Russia's social ills and the underlying cause of farreaching personality changes in Alesha (for better or worse), preparing him for a heroic destiny. Although hysteria was soon altered and later eliminated as a clinical syndrome, James L. Rice enables us to read the novel for the first time in the light of documented medical history.

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Dostoevsky's Medical History: Diagnosis and Dialectic

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Epilepsy With Auditory Features: From Etiology to Treatment

Epilepsy With Auditory Features: From Etiology to Treatment

“Bodies That Matter”: Living in the Nineteenth Century

The Covert Design ofThe Brothers Karamazov:Alesha's Pathology and Dialectic

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