Epilepsy Talk

Violence and epilepsy

No question about it. Epilepsy’s been the victim of bad press since ancient Greece.

There, it was sometimes called the “Herculean Disease” because Hercules was thought to have murdered his family in a fit of uncontrollable rage.

Two thousand years later, Michael Crichton wrote in The Terminal Man, “Epileptics are predisposed to violent, aggressive behavior during their attacks.”

Which didn’t exactly help.