The End of Epilepsy Series

I hope you have enjoyed reading about "What is Epilepsy?" and of the Famous People that have or had suffered from Epilepsy. Sadly, we have come to the end of our "Epilepsy Series". We now begin our "Dyslexia Series" so please enjoy reading.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend DJ Hapa

DJ Hapa was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 17, Hapa was initially told he would not be able to attend college due to his condition. He attended UCLA on a Regents scholarship and today is the executive director of the Scratch DJ Academy.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Chanda Gunn

Chanda Gunn was born on 27 January, 1980 in Huntington Beach, California. Chanda Gunn is an American ice hockey player. Chanda Gunn won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. As a female athlete with temporal lobe epilepsy, Chanda Gunn faces each day with a zest for life and the determination to live each day to its fullest. Gunn has received numerous awards, she is the first player ever to be named a finalist for both the Patty Kazmaier Award for the nation's best women's college hockey player and the Humanitarian Award for college hockey's finest citizen.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Truman Capote

Truman Capote - born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans, Louisiana was born on 30 September 1924 and died on 25 August 1984. Truman was an American writer whose stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Capote once said, "I don't care what anybody says about me, as long as it isn't true". John Knowles says that Capote "induced epilepsy himself by abusing his nervous system with drugs and booze" An autopsy showed Mr. Capote had an infection in his legs and signs of epilepsy, but no conclusive information was disclosed about the cause of the author's death.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Socrates

Socrates was born in 399 BCE and died in 470 BCE. Socrates was a Classical Greek philosopher. Socrates was best known for the creation of Socratic irony and the Socratic Method, or elenchus. Socrates developed the practice of a philosophical type of pedagogy, in which the teacher asks questions of the students to elicit the best answer, and fundamental insight, on the part of the student.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott was born on 15 August 1771 and died on 21 September 1832. Sir Walter Scott was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time.

Walter Scott survived a childhood bout of polio in 1773 that would leave him lame. In 1778 Scott returned to Edinburgh for private education to prepare him for school, he was now well able to walk and explore the city as well as the surrounding countryside. His reading included chivalric romances, poems, history and travel books.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann was born on 8 June, 1810 and died on 29 July, 1856. Robert was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic composers of the 19th century.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Peter the Great

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov was born on 9 June 1672 and died on 8 February 1725. Both Peter's hands and feet were small, and his shoulders narrow for his height; likewise, his head was also small for his tall body. Added to this were Peter's facial tics, and, judging by descriptions handed down, he may have suffered from petit mal, a form of epilepsy.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Peter Tchaikovsky

Peter Tchaikovsky - Russian composer of the Romantic era. Tchaikovsky, is believed to have had epilepsy. Pyotr began piano lessons at age five with a local woman, Mariya Palchikova within three years he read music as well as his teacher. Tchaikovsky died on 6 November, 1893, nine days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, the Pathétique. His death has traditionally been attributed to cholera, most probably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Paul I of Russia

Paul I of Russia - Pavel (Paul) I Petrovich of Russia was born on 1 October, 1754 and died on 23 March, 1801. Paul I of Russia was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801. During his infancy, Paul was taken from the care of his mother by the Empress Elizabeth, whose ill-judged fondness allegedly injured his health. As a boy, he was reported to be intelligent and good-looking. His pugnacious facial features in later life are attributed to an attack of typhus, from which he suffered in 1771.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Nicolo Paganini

Nicolo Paganini was born on 27 October, 1782 and died on 27 May, 1840. Nicolo was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. Nicolo is widely considered to be one of, if not the greatest violinist who ever lived and it is believed to he had epilepsy.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Margaux Hemingway

Margaux Hemingway was born on 16 February, 1955 and died on 1 July, 1996. Margaux was an American model and film actress who appeared in several movies. Margaux was born in Portland, Oregon, the sister of actress Mariel Hemingway and the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. She struggled with a variety of disorders in addition to alcoholism, including bulimia and epilepsy.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII of France was born on 27 September, 1601 and died on 14 May, 1643. Ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643. Louis XIII ascended to the throne in 1610, at the age of eight and a half, upon the assassination of his father.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Lord Byron

Lord Byron - Baron Byron, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1643, by letters patent, for Sir John Byron, a Cavalier general and former Member of Parliament. Some biographies suggest that Lord Byron experienced epileptic seizures and in various passages he writes of symptoms reminiscent of epilepsy.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend James Madison

During his teens and early twenties, James Madison complained of a voice impairment. This was a functional disability that prevented his public speaking until age 30. Madison believed he would “ have a short life due to the illness he believed was epilepsy.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Hannibal

Hannibal was a Carthaginian military commander and tactician, later also working in other professions, who is popularly credited as one of the finest commanders in history. Hannibal lived during a period of tension in the Mediterranean, when Rome (then the Roman Republic) established its supremacy over other great powers such as Carthage, Macedon, Syracuse, and the Seleucid empire. Hannibal's most famous achievement was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Pythagoras

Pythagoras was the first man to call himself a philosopher, ''lover of wisdom'' and was the most able philosopher among the Greeks. He was know as ''the father of numbers'' and greatly contributed to mathematics. It is even said that many of his ideas had directly influenced Plato. Many of his teachings were only passed down by some of his students, none of his work had seen the day and none can be sure of exactly how wise Pythagoras was. Although he had made huge contributions to both philosophy and religion in the late 6th century BC.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Charles V of Spain

Charles V of Spain was born on 24 February 1500 and died on 21 September 1558. Charles was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 until his abdication in 1556 and also ruler of the Spanish realms from 1516 until 1556.

Charles V suffered from epilepsy and from an enlarged lower jaw. He struggled to chew his food properly and consequently experienced bad indigestion for much of his life. Charles also suffered from joint pain, presumed to be gout, according to his 16th century doctors. In his retirement, he was carried around the monastery of St. Yuste in a sedan chair. He was greatly interested in clocks, instructing his servants to take them apart and reassemble them in his presence.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend George Fredrick Handel

George Frederick Handel was born on Friday 23 February 1685 and died on Saturday 14 April 1759. George was a German-born Baroque composer who is famous for his operas, oratorios and concerti grossi. Since the 1960s, with the revival of interest in baroque music, original instrument playing styles, and the prevalence of countertenors who could more accurately replicate castrato roles, interest has revived in Handel's Italian operas, and many have been recorded and performed onstage.

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Epilepsy Series-Disabled Legend Richard Burton

Richard Burton was born on 10 November, 1925 and died on 5 August, 1984. Being at one time the highest paid Hollywood actor, Richard was well known for his distinctive voice. Richard was crippled all his life by epilepsy and was extremely deep into alcoholism to try and prevent the seizures. Eventually this led him to manic depression but he would never go to see a doctor because he did not trust them one bit. At times he seemed to be more scared of being crazy then having epilepsy. Throughout his entire life he had never went to get diagnosed by a doctor.

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