Chapters authored
Anxiety as an Epileptical Equivalent (Temporal Lobe Epilepsy)
To consider anxiety as an epileptical equivalent, several considerations have to be taken into account. First of all, what is anxiety and what is if possible a universal conception of epilepsy, and I say this because although we have the DSM series, the International League Against Epilepsy and everybody talks about “consensus” the way we classify almost every syndrome in medicine tends to dilute due to the diversity of clinical manifestations that have to be taken into account, so where and how do we apply such terms. There we have our “new” platform to understand, directly and indirectly, the role of temporal lobe syndromes, which, by the way, we all “have” but need to be discerned, as we can appreciate in EEG quantitative analysis: as to why temporal lobe is always marking for increased activity?
Part of the book: Anxiety Disorders