Chopin's hallucinations were probably caused by epilepsy

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 13:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The composer Frederic Chopin, who regularly hallucinated, probably had temporal lobe epilepsy throughout his short life, reveals research published online in Medical Humanities. Hallucinations typically feature in seizure disorders, they say...

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