Open AccessDostoevsky’s epilepsy
Author(s) -
А. Yu. Ulitin,
G. V. Odintsova,
В. Г. Нездоровина,
С. М. Малышев
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nejrohirurgiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-7569
pISSN - 1683-3295
DOI - 10.17650/1683-3295-2021-23-3-113-121
Subject(s) - fyodor , aura , personality , epilepsy , personality changes , psychoanalysis , psychology , literature , art , neuroscience , psychiatry , migraine
There is a lot of evidence that a great Russian writer and essayist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky suffered from epilep‑ sy. Not only this disease had influence on Dostoevsky’s personality and social life, but also affected his creative work. Dostoevsky is believed to suffer from mesiobasal temporal lobe epilepsy with an ecstatic aura – a form named after him afterwards.