Posted on 12/12/2006 8:01:11 PM PST by dennisw
CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 11 - Religious prophet Muhammad suffered from epileptic seizures, according to a book recently released by a Tehran- native and Muslim-raised neuropsychologist. Abbas Sadeghian delivers these findings in the book Sword & Seizure, which is based on historical text, including the Koran.
Sadeghian was inspired by a comparable paper he presented in 2001 at New York University's Fielding Institute. He says Muhammad had suffered from "complex partial seizures," which are displayed through "excessive sweating and light trembling, olfactory, auditory and visual hallucinations, epigastric sensations (bad taste), excessive perspiration and hyper-religiosity." He says evidence of these is recounted throughout the Koran.
When asked by a reporter from the Canton Repository if the same diagnosis could apply to Jesus, Buddha or other religious figures, Sadeghian replied there aren't nearly as many independent historical documents detailing their lives.
"In order to do proper analysis, you must have documentation independent of what the person wrote," he said. "Muhammad lived longer and had people around him who were aware they were living in a historic moment.
They documented observations in extreme detail and in real time."
Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D has been practicing neuropsychology for nearly 20 years and is a long-standing faculty member at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.
His book is now available at both Barnes & Noble and Borders, as well as Amazon and the publisher's online store.
We suspected this all along.... now we have confirmation
"You got me Sheiking all over"
Does this sound like advanced syphilis? Hmmmmmmmm....?
GMTA! See my post above!
Kind of wondered why they wear untied straight-jackets...
He's dead.
Probably correct, but dead.
These symptoms could be attributed to teh demonic activity that certainly had an impact upon Mohammed. They are still influencing his followers. Inspired by the demonic and some of them are demoniacs today.
Your Brain on Religion: Mystic visions or brain circuits at work?
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Late syphilis symptoms - after severe progression of tertiary syphilis
* Mental illness
* Blindness
* Neurologic problems
* Heart disease
* Death
* Neurosyphilis
o No symptoms
o Headache
o Stiff neck
o Fever
o Seizures
o Stroke-like symptoms
o Paralysis
o Numbness
o Weakness
o Visual problems
Syphilitic fever could have caused the excessive sweats.
Syphilis - tertiary (Late Stage)
Tertiary syphilis can follow the initial infection, primary syphilis, by 3 to 15 years. Secondary syphilis is the stage that precedes tertiary syphilis if primary syphilis is not treated.
In tertiary syphilis, the spirochetes have continued to reproduce for years. Pockets of damage accumulate in various tissues such as the bones, skin, nervous tissue, heart, and arteries. These lesions are called gummas and are very destructive.
Lesions in the central nervous system produce neurological disease called neurosyphilis which can include tabes dorsalis, general paresis, and optic atrophy. Lesions of the heart, heart valves and aorta can lead to aneurysms, valvular heart disease, and aortitis.
Tertiary syphilis is less frequently seen today than in the past because of early detection and adequate treatment.
FWIW this guy calls amygdala the "God Part of the Brain" He is a stone atheist.
I think this man has finally explained the wierdness of Islam and its founder. Seriously. It makes sense. Mohammed was an ill man who was having hallucinations and he was very, very bad man too. The mystery is solved for me. Islam is the intellectual and spiritual creation of a bad man with a brain disorder.
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