Could men like Moses have had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy?

Scientists suspect Moses and other religious figures were epileptic. But that doesn't mean they didn't really hear God. One researcher has created the "God helmet," which uses sensors to reproduce mystical experience by manipulating brain chemistry. read more

In addition, in the February 25, 1984 edition of Lancet, Spark, Wills and Royal describe hypo-sexuality in ll of 16 men with temporal lobe epilepsy, tying Paul’s symptoms together nicely. Temporal lobe epilepsy can manifest in different ways at different times and might be described as “a thorn in the side” if frequent and tending to generalize to “grand mal” or tonic-clonic fits. read more

“My left temporal lobe looked completely different from the way it did before the surgery,” he says. Gradually, it had become smaller, a different shape, covered with scar tissue. Those changes had sparked electrical firings in his brain. read more