The Epileptic Aura

Epileptic consciousness: concept and meaning of aura.

This research is based on previous publications that have analyzed certain neuropsychological phenomena that always have the same characteristic clinical features: a vivid experience of sudden onset and automatic development, accompanied by an intense sensation of strangeness. When these automatisms are accompanied by only mental symptoms, the designation paroxysmal psychic automatisms (PPAs) i...

Neurodynamics and Phenomenology in Mutual Enlightenment: the example of the epileptic aura

Hungarian multicentre epidemiologic study of the warning and initial symptoms (prodrome, aura) of epileptic seizures

We carried out a Hungarian multicentre study to assess the frequency of the occurrence of warning symptoms preceding epileptic seizure. The data of 562 patients with epilepsy out of a total of 1124 were analysed on the basis of questionnaires filled in under standard conditions. About 50% of the patients experienced warning symptoms before a smaller or greater part of their seizures. Their appe...

Digital Aura

Smart space and smart appliances, i.e. wirelessly ad-hoc networked, mobile, autonomous special purpose computing devices, providing largely invisible support and contextaware services have started to populate the real world and our daily lives. In such a world, where literally everything is connected to everything with invisible, wireless data links, we need new styles on how humans and things ...

Aura 2

Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression (PTR) has been object of a rising interest in the latest years, gaining wide recognition as the most important determinant of protein levels and cell phenotypes. In consequence to this interest, huge amounts of data have been and are being collected every day primarily thanks to the advent of the new high-throughput techniques such as polysomal...