THE Bible may contain the oldest recorded case of temporal lobe epilepsy.
Ezekiel, the prophet whose visions are recorded in a book of the Old Testament,
apparently had all the classic signs of the condition.
Earlier this year Eric Altschuler, a neuroscientist at the University of
California at San Diego, claimed that the Biblical strongman Samson may have
been the earliest known sufferer of antisocial personality disorder
(Â鶹´«Ã½, 17 February, p 19).
Now he says that records in the Bible reveal that Ezekiel, who lived about 2600
years ago, showed extreme classic symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy.
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