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January 1964, Vol 10, No. 1 >
Article | January 1964

Recurrent Dreams: Title and subTitle BreakTheir Relationship to Temporal Lobe Seizures

ARTHUR W. EPSTEIN, MD
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Submitted for publication Aug 8, 1963.

Read before the Section on Neurological and Mental Diseases at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, NJ, June 16-20, 1963.

Aided by a General Research Support Grant, United States Public Health Service.


Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;10(1):25-30. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1964.01720190027003
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The clinical observation that temporal lobe seizure content is, in given individuals, analogous to dream content suggests that further study of this seizure type may throw light on the mechanism of dreaming in general. Indeed, it has been postulated that seizure content and dream "depend on the same neuronal mechanism in the temporal cortex."9

It is the purpose of this paper to examine some relationships between recurrent dreams and temporal lobe seizures when these occur in the same individuals. The immediate impetus for this study was furnished by observation of a patient with a recurrent dream of many years duration; the dream eventually appeared episodically during the waking state and finally occurred as an "aura" to a grand-mal seizure. Other cases had previously been encountered in which the recurrent dreams assumed a different relationship to seizures. After a study of these personal cases and of

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Chessick, R. D., and Bolin, R. R.:  Psychiatric Study of Patients With Psychomotor Seizures , J Nerv Ment Dis 134:72-79, 1962;.
2 +
Clark, L. P.:  The Nature and Pathogenesis of Epilepsy , New York J Med 101:567-573, 623-628, 1915;.
3 +
Epstein, A. W., and Ervin, F.:  Psychodynamic Significance of Seizure Content in Psychomotor Epilepsy , Psychosom Med 18:43-55, 1956;.
4 +
Heath, R. G.; Studies in Schizophrenia , Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1954;.
5 +
Kardiner, A.:  The Bio-Analysis of the Epileptic Reaction , Psychoanal Quart 1:375-483, 1932;.
6 +
Lesse, H.; Heath, R. G.; Mickle, W. A.; Monroe, R. R.; and Miller, W. H.:  Rhinencephalic Activity During Thought , J Nerv Ment Dis 122:433-440, 1955;.
7 +
Ostow, M.:  Psychodynamic Disturbances in Patients with Temporal Lobe Disorder , J Mount Sinai Hosp NY 20:293-308, 1954;.
8 +
Penfield, W., and Jasper, H.: Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain , Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1954;.
9 +
Penfield, W., and Rasmussen, T.: The Cerebral Cortex of Man , New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950;.
10 +
Rodin, E. A.; Mulder, D. W.; Faucett, R. L.; and Bickford, R. G.:  Psychologic factors in Convulsive Disorders of Focal Origin , AMA Arch Neurol Psychiat 74:365-374, 1955;.
11 +
Williams, D.:  The Structure of Emotions Reflected in Epileptic Experiences , Brain 79:29-67, 1956;.

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