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"Fascinating account of medical research...LaPlante shows how a brain scar may cause bizarre aggressive or sexual behavior-and works of profound creative imagination."
-Howard Gardner
"Readers intrigued by Oliver Sacks' Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat will welcome LaPlante's book...Thoughtful...Highly recommended."
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"LaPlante's descriptions of the human brain are wonderfully concrete, and her empathy for epilepsy's victims is clear."
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Eve LaPlante has degrees from Princeton and Harvard. She has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal, Working Woman, Parents, Country Living, and many other publications. She is also the author of American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman who defied the Puritans (Harper, 2004).
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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The diagnosis of epilepsy is shocking enough, for social reasons, one soon finds out, as much as medical. At least as bad is the paucity of information available - and above all on the commonest form of the condition, temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). I have waited forty years for Mrs La Plant's book, to find out that I'm not really so very strange after all. My experiences are commonplace in TLE. Why didn't I know before? Simple - the information wasn't to be had. Why not? The author makes no pretensions to medical qualifications, but has taken care to consult medical figures of distinction, so that her work is to be trusted. A minor criticism is her perhaps undue readiness to read back into very historical persons (or perhaps semi-mythic figures, such as Moses)symptoms of TLE. She may well be right, but except for recent history (e.g. "Lewis Carroll") it would be wise to exercise just a little more care. This is a minor point. If you are getting over the shock of diagnosis - or have a member of family in that state - or have had the condition for many years, don't waste time in getting hold of this book. You'll find it great value. I certainly did, after too many years, and likewise my family.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent book for those who wish to learn more about Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. The book is not heavy on doctors terms or anything like that, so there's no need to be put off by that. It uses real life cases to explain everything, and keep the reader interested and informed at the same time.
Well written for this kind of book.
Well written for this kind of book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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...I love books and, the thought of a brand new book remaining in my posession unopened was making me dizzy! I am 60% confirmed to have TLE (scan + EEG next week). Basically, I wanted to know what this is, what I can do to be 'normal' again & not have my car taken away. I've read almost half of 'Seized' and felt strangely comforted that I was in good company. It sounds bizaare, but I wont be returning this book after all - I suppose you can say, I've been 'seized'.
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