J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 1990; 2:69-71
Copyright © 1990 by American Neuropsychiatric Association
What the reflex epilepsies reveal about the physiology of ideation
AW Epstein
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112.
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.
