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 👇🏽👇🏽

#NeuroTwitter #ArtTwitter 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:

Do you think creativity can be pathological? 🤔
Neuro says: maybe🧠❤️

What differential diagnosis can you come up for the CC: "new or improved bursts of creativity"? ⚡🔥

(Sorry for the made up schema, don't quote me on this)
#art #neurotwitter @AaronLBerkowitz first introduced me to the story about obsession, creativity and neurological disease of both Maurice Ravel and Anne Adams.

Let's start at the beginning with Ravel (🇫🇷 1875 - 1937). He was a pianist and composer associated with impressionism.

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 👇🏽 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.
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