A review of the phenomena involved in reflex epilepsy illustrates that ideas have a neural substrate. The ideational substratum and, at times, associative links to other stimuli have physiological (epileptogenic) power. These phenomena can be applied to events in some psychopathological disorders.
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A W Epstein (1990) studied this question.
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