Article ID: CBB823141589

Epilepsy, Ammon’s Horn Sclerosis, and Camille Bouchet (2017)

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Increasing interest into the relationship between Ammon’s horn sclerosis (hippocampal sclerosis) and epilepsy seems to have developed after 1880 when Sommer’s paper appeared. Bouchet and Cazauvieilh had published the original description of the hippocampal anatomical abnormality in 1825 while attempting to locate the cerebral sites of origin of epilepsy and insanity. However, they offered no interpretation of the significance of the structural change. What has sometimes not been noticed in the subsequent literature is that, after a further investigation, in 1853, Bouchet described the change in 18 of 43 additional brains from persons with epilepsy. Despite this frequency of occurrence of the hippocampal abnormality, he concluded that epileptic seizures had no single site of origin in the brain. Before most of his contemporaries and their successors, he began to propose the idea that all epileptic seizures were symptoms of various, though mostly cerebral, disorders. In doing this, he tended to be reluctant to accept the view that epilepsy was a disease in its own right.

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Authors & Contributors
Bladin, Peter F.
Eadie, Mervyn J.
Barahona, Ana Echeverría
Binder, Devin K.
Eadie, M. J.
Eling, Paul
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
History of Psychiatry
Pharmacy in History
Social History of Medicine
Taiwan shehui yanjiu jikan (Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies)
Medicina Historica
Publishers
Epilepsy Australia
MIT Press
Thieme
Concepts
Neurology
Neurological diseases
Epilepsy
Neurosciences
Medicine
Psychiatry
People
Duchenne de Boulogne, Guillaume Benjamin
Economo, Constantin von
Hoppe, Herman
Jackson, John Hughlings
Muskens, Louis J. J.
Nothnagel, Hermann
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Ancient
Modern
Places
Taiwan
Australia
France
Greece
Hungary
Italy
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