Dostoevsky’s epilepsy
https://doi.org/10.17650/1683-3295-2021-23-3-113-121
Abstract
There is a lot of evidence that a great Russian writer and essayist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky suffered from epilep‑ sy. Not only this disease had influence on Dostoevsky’s personality and social life, but also affected his creative work. Dostoevsky is believed to suffer from mesiobasal temporal lobe epilepsy with an ecstatic aura – a form named after him afterwards.
About the Authors
A. Yu. Ulitin
Russian Research Neurosurgical Institute – a branch of the V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Health of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksey Yu. Ulitin
12 Mayakovskogo St., Saint Petersburg 191104
G. V. Odintsova
Russian Research Neurosurgical Institute – a branch of the V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Health of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
12 Mayakovskogo St., Saint Petersburg 191104
V. G. Nezdorovina
Russian Research Neurosurgical Institute – a branch of the V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Health of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
12 Mayakovskogo St., Saint Petersburg 191104
S. M. Malyshev
Russian Research Neurosurgical Institute – a branch of the V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Health of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
12 Mayakovskogo St., Saint Petersburg 191104
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Ulitin A.Yu., Odintsova G.V., Nezdorovina V.G., Malyshev S.M. Dostoevsky’s epilepsy. Russian journal of neurosurgery. 2021;23(3):113-121. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17650/1683-3295-2021-23-3-113-121
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