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What the reflex epilepsies reveal about the physiology of ideation
1Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112.
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A review of the phenomena involved in reflex epilepsy illustrates that ideas have a neural substrate. The ideational substratum and, at times, associative links to other stimuli have physiological (epileptogenic) power. These phenomena can be applied to events in some psychopathological disorders.