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An actor and film director who had epilepsy from age 15 to age 35. [10] Margaux Hemingway: 1955–1996 A film actress and model who had epilepsy from the age of seven. Her death was attributed to suicide by an intentional overdose of phenobarbital, which is an anticonvulsant, but see the footnoted article for an alternative explanation. [11]
List of people with epilepsy. Aristotle made one. Many books on epilepsy have one. Every epilepsy charity web site has one (try Google ). I believe this list is unique and represents Wikipedia's very best work. Unlike many other such lists, this one has references for every person and does not include speculative retrospective diagnoses.
Catamenial epilepsy is underlain by hormonal fluctuations of the menstrual cycle where estrogens promote seizures and progesterone counteracts seizure activity. [2] Since at least ancient Greek times, there has been documented studies of women with epilepsy and its correlation to the menstrual cycle. [3] So catamenial epilepsy is a unique group ...
Kelly Ripa “As early as I can remember, certain sounds of eating bothered me,” Kelly revealed during a 2012 interview on ABC’s 20/20. “The sounds of people chewing gum can really enrage me.”
Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsɑːrtʃi]), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one ...
Abdominal epilepsy is a rare condition most frequently found in children, consisting of gastrointestinal disturbances caused by epileptiform seizure activity. [1][2][3][4][5] Though a few cases of it have been reported in adults too. [6] It has been described as a type of temporal lobe epilepsy. [7] Responsiveness to anticonvulsants can aid in ...
The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras (March 4, 1988 – October 31, 2006), who died at age 18 in a high-speed car crash in Lake Forest, California, after losing control of her father's Porsche 911 Carrera and colliding with a toll booth. Photographs of Catsouras's badly ...
In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. [3] The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured ...