temporal-lobe

A brain scan reveals temporal-lobe seizures, a type of epilepsy that can be treated with surgery or medication.

Confusing Medical Ailments With Mental Illness Melinda Beck 2011

The visions of Joan of Arc, the prophet Muhammad and Saint Paul are suggestive of hallucinations produced by temporal-lobe epilepsy.

Is Everybody Crazy? 2008

Through brain-scanning experiments, researchers have located the neurochemical essence of our face expertise in a strip of temporal-lobe tissue about two inches long and three-quarters of an inch wide.

Some Scientists Argue 2008

For the temporal-lobe system is supposed to have access both to property information and to spatial information.

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness Carruthers, Peter 2007

Dostoevsky, Saint Paul, Saint Teresa of Avila, Proust and others are thought to have had temporal-lobe epilepsy, leaving them obsessed with matters of the spirit.

Religion And The Brain 2007

After another panelist, neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran of the University of California, San Diego, explained that temporal-lobe seizures of the brain create profound spiritual and out-of-body experiences, Dawkins disclosed that he had participated in an experiment that was supposed to mimic such seizures — and even then he didn't feel a thing.

Losing Our Religion 2007

Although temporal-lobe epilepsy is rare, researchers suspect that focused bursts of electrical activity called "temporal-lobe transients" may yield mystical experiences.

Religion And The Brain 2007

And only the perceptions generated by the temporal-lobe system are phenomenally conscious, on their account.

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness Carruthers, Peter 2007

Frontal - and temporal-lobe circuits, which mark time and generate self-awareness, must disengage.

Religion And The Brain 2007

Although some studies have cast doubt on the connection between temporal-lobe epilepsy and religiosity, others find that the condition seems to trigger vivid, Joan of Arc-type religious visions and voices.

Religion And The Brain 2007