Scott Fitzgerald: famous writer, alcoholism and probable epilepsy
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Scott Fitzgerald: famous writer, alcoholism and probable epilepsy.
Scott Fitzgerald, a world-renowned American writer, suffered from various health problems, particularly alcohol dependence, and died suddenly at the age of 44. According to descriptions in A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald had episodes resembling complex partial seizures, raising the possibility of temporal lobe epilepsy.
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282x20160167