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I was recently talking with my students about epilepsy and the atypical presentations auras and seizures can have...
From hallucinations to deja vus, and even ... happiness?? Dostoevsky explains 👇🏽👇🏽
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From hallucinations to deja vus, and even ... happiness?? Dostoevsky explains 👇🏽👇🏽
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Dostoevsky, one of my favourite authors (to whom I owe some of my own most "profound" thoughts) is also one of the most famous literary figures on epilepsy.
Here's a description of Dostoevsky's seizures by a close friend, Strakhov:
Here's a description of Dostoevsky's seizures by a close friend, Strakhov:
Although a lot of that description is fascinating, what really catches everyone's eyes is the term✨ecstasy✨.
What could he even mean by that? Thankfully, Doestoevsky himself tells us more about his experiences through the (beautiful) narration of a seizure in "The Idiot":
What could he even mean by that? Thankfully, Doestoevsky himself tells us more about his experiences through the (beautiful) narration of a seizure in "The Idiot":
In an effort to increase my trivia knowledge and call it "studying", I'll start doing 🧵s about how art intersects w/ medicine in a place called neurology!❤️🧠
First one up: Should the Babinski sign be the Botticelli sign?
Short answer: No
Long answer: No, but this is cool 👇🏽
First one up: Should the Babinski sign be the Botticelli sign?
Short answer: No
Long answer: No, but this is cool 👇🏽
Babinski wrote about the most famous eponym in neurology, the Babinski reflex, on Feb 22 1896.
With only 28 lines he described the abnormal cutaneous plantar reflex and explained how it associates to the pyramidal tract.
bit.ly/3y7vMAA
With only 28 lines he described the abnormal cutaneous plantar reflex and explained how it associates to the pyramidal tract.
bit.ly/3y7vMAA
Although a myriad of pathologies affecting the pyramidal tract can cause the "upgoing toe" with stimulation to the sole of the feet... this finding can be normal in babies while they continue to myelinate their corticospinal tracts.
embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/ind…
embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/ind…
