psychomotor epilepsy

"What the hell do you have, psychomotor epilepsy or something?"

Harry Benson, a man in his 30s, suffers from psychomotor epilepsy.

Within two years, primidone was no longer seen as the drug of choice for psychomotor epilepsy in the United States.

Mr. Torsney was said to suffer from a rare condition called psychomotor epilepsy.

He coined the term "psychomotor epilepsy".

Dr. Whitty noted in 1953 that it benefitted patients with psychomotor epilepsy, who were often treatment-resistant.

A leading brain researcher, Dr. Frederic A. Gibbs, disagreed and diagnosed what he called psychomotor epilepsy.

Mr. Torsney was acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing, at a trial in which he claimed he suffered from a rare form of psychomotor epilepsy.

During this time, MacLean did research on psychomotor epilepsy, and published his paper on the "visceral brain", for which he introduced the term "limbic system" in 1952).

That Bratty was not guilty on the basis that he was in a state of automatism and not "master of his own actions", the only cause suggested for this being psychomotor epilepsy.

Melvin Belli called upon him as an expert witness for Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, whom he diagnosed as suffering organic brain damage that most likely involved psychomotor epilepsy.

Routine physical examinations of Conner had disclosed abnormal EEG patterns akin to, but different from, those associated with hereditary migraine and some psychomotor epilepsy; David showed these also, although in a subclinical degree.

A classic study on higher brain function is the work of the Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, on the electrical stimulation of various parts of the cerebral cortex, generally in attempts to relieve symptoms of a disease such as psychomotor epilepsy.

His papers on the latter variety of epilepsy have seldom been bettered in their descriptive clinical detail or in their analysis of the relationship of psychomotor epilepsy to various patterns of pathological automatism and other mental and behavioural disorders.