http://www.metafilter.com/tags/lobe Posts tagged with 'lobe' at MetaFilter. Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:15:43 -0800 Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:15:43 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/38810/TLE <a href="http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:qTC4XaOnRQEJ:inman.surnameweb.org/documents/a-inman2.htm+%22the+riddle+of+tle%22&amp;hl=en">TLE,</a> possibly one of the most common diseases, believed to affect 600,000 to a million Americans, remains obscure. It is what afflicted Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, and <a href="http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/epilepsy_temporallobe.html">Dostoyevsky</a>. Known through the work of <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=889477&dopt=Abstract">Bear</a> and <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2003418&dopt=Abstract">Geshwind</a>, it is virtually impossible to diagnose except in a severe cases where a seizure can be witnessed by an MRI or EEG, also because of the controversial <a href="http://www.epilepsy.com/articles/ar_1064250059.html">theories on personality</a>. While a neurological disorder, it is treated by psychiatrists, and when medicated, <a href="http://www.science-spirit.org/articles/Articledetail.cfm?article_ID=130">artists have often felt that</a> <a href="http://nasw.org/finn/brnstrm.html">the muse has left them</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.38810 Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:15:43 -0800 Alexander artist Ceasar disease Dostoyevsky epilepsy Great health lobe mental psychosis temporal the scazza