“Most commonly as the result of a birth injury and developmental abnormalities, and occasionally due to a tumor, a patient can develop a particular form of epilepsy—a complex partial seizure. These spontaneous electrical discharges from temporal lobe-limbic structures characteristically produce a transient (seconds to minutes) alteration or clouding of consciousness, often associated with the intrusion of other mental feelings—déjà vu, dread, fear, and even religious feelings such as those described by Dostoyevsky. Their intensity varies from brief lapses in awareness to a complete loss of consciousness and major convulsions. The frequency also varies greatly. Some patients have very few seizures that are completely controlled with medication ; others less fortunate can experience upwards of several dozen seizures per day despite maximal medication. “
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