- Title Pages
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part 1 History
- Chapter 2 Memory before and after H.M.: an impressionistic historical perspective
- Chapter 3 Memory disorders and epilepsy during the nineteenth century
- Part 2 Overviews of memory and epilepsy
- Chapter 4 Interictal memory disturbance: a comparative phenomenology and epidemiology of memory impairment in epilepsies
- Chapter 5 Long-term follow-up of memory in patients with epilepsy
- Chapter 6 Memory in children with epilepsy
- Part 3 Ictal and interictal memory phenomena
- Chapter 7 <i>Déjà</i> experiences in epilepsy: contributions from memory research
- Chapter 8 The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia
- Chapter 9 Effects of epileptiform EEG discharges on cognitive function
- Part 4 Assessment
- Chapter 10 Neuropsychological assessment of memory in patients with epilepsy
- Chapter 11 Memory assessment in intracarotid anaesthetic procedures: history and current status
- Chapter 12 Epilepsy and the study of spatial memory using virtual reality
- Part 5 Remote memory and psychiatric disorders
- Chapter 13 Remote memory and temporal lobe epilepsy
- Chapter 14 Electroconvulsive therapy for depression and autobiographical memory
- Chapter 15 Psychiatric aspects of memory disorders in epilepsy
- Part 6 Imaging and event-related potentials (ERPs)
- Chapter 16 Structural imaging and neuropathological correlates of memory in epilepsy
- Chapter 17 Functional imaging of memory in epilepsy
- Chapter 18 Electrophysiological studies of memory in epilepsy
- Part 7 Intracranial stimulation and recording
- Chapter 19 Memory and epilepsy in nonhuman animals
- Chapter 20 Hippocampal electrical stimulation and localisation of long-term episodic memory
- Chapter 21 Interrelationships between epilepsy, sleep, and memory
- Chapter 22 Mapping memories in the medial temporal lobe: contributions from single-neuron recordings in patients with epilepsy
- Part 8 Management and outcome
- Chapter 23 Anticonvulsants and memory
- Chapter 24 Effects of amygdalohippocampectomy versus corticoamygdalohippocampectomy on memory and nonmemory cognitive functions
- Chapter 25 Memory rehabilitation for people with epilepsy
- Author index
- Subject index
Memory disorders and epilepsy during the nineteenth century
Memory disorders and epilepsy during the nineteenth century
- Chapter:
- (p.51) Chapter 3 Memory disorders and epilepsy during the nineteenth century
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- Epilepsy and Memory
- Author(s):
German E. Berrios
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the study of epilepsy and memory in the nineteenth century. It first considers the difficulty posed for the history of medicine by the changing meanings of currently familiar terms: ‘epilepsy’ and ‘memory’ were understood quite differently from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Medical history cannot, therefore, be expected to trace a simple line of discovery from past to present. Next, the chapter places thinking about epilepsy and memory in the nineteenth century in the context of the creation of ‘alienism’, the forerunner of neurology and psychiatry, the concept of the ‘neuroses’, and the development of new techniques of numerical description and of languages categorizing mental symptoms. Finally, it considers aspects of the study of epilepsy, of memory, and of their interaction in France in the nineteenth century.
Keywords: epilepsy, memory, medical history, alienism, neuroses, France
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part 1 History
- Chapter 2 Memory before and after H.M.: an impressionistic historical perspective
- Chapter 3 Memory disorders and epilepsy during the nineteenth century
- Part 2 Overviews of memory and epilepsy
- Chapter 4 Interictal memory disturbance: a comparative phenomenology and epidemiology of memory impairment in epilepsies
- Chapter 5 Long-term follow-up of memory in patients with epilepsy
- Chapter 6 Memory in children with epilepsy
- Part 3 Ictal and interictal memory phenomena
- Chapter 7 <i>Déjà</i> experiences in epilepsy: contributions from memory research
- Chapter 8 The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia
- Chapter 9 Effects of epileptiform EEG discharges on cognitive function
- Part 4 Assessment
- Chapter 10 Neuropsychological assessment of memory in patients with epilepsy
- Chapter 11 Memory assessment in intracarotid anaesthetic procedures: history and current status
- Chapter 12 Epilepsy and the study of spatial memory using virtual reality
- Part 5 Remote memory and psychiatric disorders
- Chapter 13 Remote memory and temporal lobe epilepsy
- Chapter 14 Electroconvulsive therapy for depression and autobiographical memory
- Chapter 15 Psychiatric aspects of memory disorders in epilepsy
- Part 6 Imaging and event-related potentials (ERPs)
- Chapter 16 Structural imaging and neuropathological correlates of memory in epilepsy
- Chapter 17 Functional imaging of memory in epilepsy
- Chapter 18 Electrophysiological studies of memory in epilepsy
- Part 7 Intracranial stimulation and recording
- Chapter 19 Memory and epilepsy in nonhuman animals
- Chapter 20 Hippocampal electrical stimulation and localisation of long-term episodic memory
- Chapter 21 Interrelationships between epilepsy, sleep, and memory
- Chapter 22 Mapping memories in the medial temporal lobe: contributions from single-neuron recordings in patients with epilepsy
- Part 8 Management and outcome
- Chapter 23 Anticonvulsants and memory
- Chapter 24 Effects of amygdalohippocampectomy versus corticoamygdalohippocampectomy on memory and nonmemory cognitive functions
- Chapter 25 Memory rehabilitation for people with epilepsy
- Author index
- Subject index