Language analysis aids epilepsy diagnosis

[Bernard]

... Using a process called conversation analysis, researchers have found that people suffering from seizures talk about them in one way if they are caused by epilepsy and in another if they have a psychological root.

A patient with epilepsy will tend to volunteer many details about what it felt like to have a seizure and how they will try to "fight it off", whereas patients with non-epileptic seizures talk about them in terms of a complete memory loss which is more similar to amnesia linked to traumatic experiences. ...

Language analysis aids epilepsy diagnosis

[Tilei]

Interesting, so my telling the doc. how it feels and how I know if I could just touch the side of my face it would all stop...

...but then telling him about my 'loss in place of time' not really memory loss, just don't know what day it is etc.


Uh?