Clinico‐pathological observations regarding aetiology are reported in two large series of
patients submitted to operation for chronic non‐tumorous drug‐resistant temporal lobe …

An unusual microscopic abnormality has been identified in the lobectomy specimens
removed surgically from the brains of 10 epileptic patients. The abnormality could seldom be …

Increasing attention is being paid to the relationship of cerebral lesions to the epilepsies.
Gastaut and Fischer-Williams 27 consider that cases of so-called functional or idiopathic …

THERE is now general agreement 1-3 that in about 50% of institutionalized epileptic
patients who die of natural causes, an autopsy will disclose a lesion. This was first …

Mesial temporal (Ammon's horn) sclerosis is the most common single lesion to be found post
mortem in the brains of chronic epileptics who die a natural death. Its significance has long …

Since the pioneering work of Wilder Penfield (Penfield and Flanigin, 1950), of Morris (1950),
and of Bailey and Gibbs (1951), the surgical possibilities of relieving intractable epilepsy …

A. Concerning disc prolapses..... 5 1. Operative findings.... 15 2. Stimulation under local
anacsthesia.. 15 3. Fluctuations in size-.. 15 4. Position in relation to theca and nerve …

Temporal-lobe epilepsy commonly has its origins in childhood, particularly when the lesion
involved is mesial temporal (Ammon's horn) sclerosis. Evidence suggests that this lesion is …

Temporal lobe epilepsy, similarly to focal epilepsy arising elsewhere in the brain, can result
from a wide variety of lesions that may involve the temporal lobe. Some of these may be of …

METHOD Most patients who have undergone a temporal lobectomy for epilepsy in the Guy's-
Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit are regularly followed up and are seen, if physically possible …