Comments on: Epilepsy, inside and out http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/29/epilepsy-inside-and-out/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:56:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cavall de quer http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/29/epilepsy-inside-and-out/#comment-20221 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:47:24 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18531#comment-20221 “Terrible how people try to interfere based on what they see in the movies,”….indeed – who can forget George Cole wrestling a bar between Rex Harrison’s teeth in “Cleopatra”? Stopping a person in a seizure from “biting their tongue” is a real meme – although it used to be “swallowing their tongue”, which is an interesting bit of change over time/place in itself.
There must be lots of these media/tradition-inspired treatment ideas floating around which would be worth collecting.

]]> By: Emmy http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/29/epilepsy-inside-and-out/#comment-20217 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:24:06 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18531#comment-20217 Read it this morning (good thing it’s almost July, NY Times is ready to kick me out after using up my alloted free articles this month). A very honest piece, quite good. It is hard to stay calm when it’s someone we know, it’s exactly why (in my former profession) vets and vet techs are discoraged from doing medical procedures on their own animals.

Terrible how people try to interfere based on what they see in the movies, although it’s never wrong to call 911 if one is in doubt – as is evidenced by the fact that one of the neurologist’s seizures was actually caused by a brain tumor. Another striking aspect of the article. Easily missed in someone with epilepsy, I bet.

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