Tag: epilepsy

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adam Jacobs, Alice Cronin, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, corpus callosum, epilepsy, Feed Your Head, Justine Sergent, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, MIT, neuroscience, split-brain surgery, The Immortal Mind, University of Amsterdam, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conundrum: Split Brain But Unified Perception

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 8, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Current research suggests that a non-materialist approach to the neuroscience of the human mind is quite viable. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 3, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, EEG machine, epilepsy, legs, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, pain medications, recovery room, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery, vital signs}

New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 3, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 7, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, alcohol, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, behaviors, brain, brain activity, electrical discharges, emotions, epilepsy, forced thinking, medical treatment, migraines, mind, muscles, neuorscience, neurons, neuroscience, obsessive-compulsive behavior, odors, physiological reactions, seizure, stroke, Thomas Aquinas, Wilder Penfield}

What Epilepsy Can Teach About the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 7, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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I have treated thousands of patients with epilepsy. Seizures can result in a variety of behaviors and emotions. But let me tell you what they don't do. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 11, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, dizzy spells, doctors, epilepsy, epiphanies, free will, grand mal seizures, human mind, Joan of Arc, material cause, Michael Egnor, mind, Mother Teresa, neurosurgeons, panic attacks, Psyche (website), Saint Paul, seizures, unconsciousness, Webb Wright}

From Seizures, a Healthy Respect for the Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 11, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Webb Wright’s roundup of historical approaches to epilepsy is not very insightful, unfortunately. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 16, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, behavior, brain, consciousness, epilepsy, human brain, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, NOVA, Roger Sperry, seizures, split brain, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind, UC Santa Barbara, Yair Pinto}

Split-Brain Research Confirms Unity of the Human Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 16, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The NOVA special’s claim is, “The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull.” Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, David Chalmers, epilepsy, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, music, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Pat Flynn, promissory materialism, seizures, Stony Brook University, Wilder Penfield}

What 1,000+ Brain Surgeries Taught About the Mind

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought. Read More ›

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Date
August 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adults, brain, children, Denyse O'Leary, epilepsy, human brain, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, pop psychology, stroke, The Immortal Mind}

Do We Need the Right Half of the Brain?

_{Science and Culture
August 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

A 29-year-old woman, CB, with no neurological or psychiatric history had a stroke, possibly due to medication issues. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain, Christianity, dualism, epilepsy, inductive reasoning, inference to the best explanation, intellectual seizures, logic, materialism, mind, Mystery of the Mind, natural science, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, surgery, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wilder Penfield, William Shakespeare}

Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

_{Michael Egnor
November 16, 2021

Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, brain chemistry, chewing, consciousness, dualism, epilepsy, father, intellectual seizures, materialism, medical literature, mental function, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, morality, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Sabbath, smell, soul, walking, Wilder Penfield}

If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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"There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 27, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, abstract thought, atheism, brain, debate, epilepsy, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Neural Networks, neuroscience, psychiatry, Science Uprising, Stony Brook University, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 27, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

3}

From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning. Read More ›