What the reflex epilepsies reveal about the physiology of ideation.
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.
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Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112.
D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D012018:Reflex / Q000502:physiology*