Temporal Lobe facts
While investigating facts about Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Temporal Lobe Function, I found out little known, but curios details like:
You can have seizures all your life and never know it. They are Temporal Lobe seizures and are referred to auras and include a sense of deja vu or unexplained sense if dread.
how is temporal lobe epilepsy diagnosed?
Deja vu is thought to be caused by temporal lobe epilepsy
What temporal lobe epilepsy?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what temporal lobe is responsible for. Here are 8 of the best facts about Temporal Lobe Seizures and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Symptoms I managed to collect.
what temporal lobe does?
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Some epilepsy prone people have consistent cases of deja vu before a seizure due to the seizure beginning in the medial temporal lobe which is responsible for long term memory
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Epileptic seizures in the temporal lobe can cause people to believe they've had a "religious experience"
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There is actually a fifth lobe of the cerebral cortex other than the Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, and Occipital! It is called the “Insula” and is hidden beneath the temporal lobe after embryonic development.
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The novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky showed symptoms of Geschwind syndrome, a group of behavioral phenomena evident in some people with temporal lobe epilepsy, which causes chronic, mild, interictal (i.e. between seizures) changes in personality, and slowly intensify over time.
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Vincent van Gogh led a very tragic life that may have been attributed to Geschwind syndrome (temporal lobe epilepsy, manic and depressive tendencies, altered sexuality, paranoia, hypergraphia)
