Epilepsy in my life
Lisyak, J.
Australian Family Physician 23(10): 1951-1953; 1956
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8495 PMID: 7818396 Document Number: 427019
The author presents a personal account of his battle with the problem of complex partial seizures (temporal lobe epilepsy). This exposure and knowledge obtained from the tales of colleagues in a support group convinced him that the emotional side of epilepsy is not properly understood.
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