The Apostle Paul had a chronic disease. Epilepsy is offered as the most likely hypothesis. Interpretation of parts of the Pauline epistles suggests the possibility of facial motor and sensitive disturbances coming after ecstatic seizures.
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April 1990
Motor attacks induced by voluntary movements are infrequent. Paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis (PKC) is rare and has only recently been individualized (Kertesz, 1967). We report the case of an 8 year-old boy who developed unilateral or bilateral attacks of abnormal, choreoathetotic movements during certain voluntary movements, especially when rising after a rest.
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