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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Epileptic seizure, List of people with epilepsy, Ketogenic diet, Anticonvulsant, Status epilepticus, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Postictal state, Unverricht-Lundborg disease, West syndrome, Seizure trigger, Seizure types, Panayiotopoulos syndrome, Myoclonic Astatic Epilepsy, Epilepsy and driving, Epilepsy and employment, Rasmussen's encephalitis, Anavex Life Sciences, Migralepsy, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project, Hemispherectomy, Breakthrough seizure, Aura, Epilepsia partialis continua, Epilepsy in children, Issues for epileptics, Kindling model, Amygdalohippocampectomy, Paroxysmal depolarizing shift, Canine Epileptoid Cramping Syndrome, Epilepsy in animals, Seizure response dog, Anterior temporal lobectomy, Harding test, Corpus callosotomy, Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, Complex partial status epilepticus, EC-hippocampus system, Forced normalization, Mesial temporal sclerosis, Epileptologist, Purple glove syndrome, Hippocampal sclerosis, Intercalated seizure, Engel Class, Heautoscopy, Racine stages, Vertiginous epilepsy, Ictal asystole, Reflex epilepsy. Excerpt: This is a list of notable people who have, or had, the medical condition epilepsy. Following from that, there is a short list of people who have received a speculative, retrospective diagnosis of epilepsy. Finally there is a substantial list of people who are often wrongly believed to have had epilepsy. A possible link between epilepsy and greatness has fascinated biographers and physicians for centuries. In his Treatise on Epilepsy, the French 17th century physician Jean Taxil refers to Aristotle's "famous epileptics." This list includes Hercules, Ajax, Bellerophon, Socrates, Plato, Empedocles, Maracus of Syracuse, and the Sibyls. However, historian of medicine Owsei Temkin argues that Aristotle had in fact made ...
