Media Depictions
- Film The Exorcism of Emily Rose, 2005.
- Film Deceiver, 1997.
- Film Happy Accidents, 2001.
- Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode "The Gift," 2003.
- Television show "Veronica Mars," 2004-2007, main character Veronica Mars suspected her ex-boyfriend Duncan Kane of murdering his sister and her best friend, Lilly Kane, after discovering he had been treated for TLE symptoms. (Wrongly described on the show as "Type Four Epilepsy.")
- Television show "Medium," 2005-2011, starring Patricia Arquette
- Television show "Firefly," 2002, film Serenity, 2005, both created by Joss Whedon, feature character River Tam, affected with symptoms of TLE after alteration of amygdala, brain component related to TLE
- A current story line on the CBS daytime drama, The Young and the Restless, features character Victor Newman being diagnosed with TLE.
- Television Show "ER" 2007, episode "Crisis of Consciousness", patient predicts engine will fall on his head if he is not moved.
- Television Show "Day Break" on ABC, Jared is said to have TLE.
- Television show "Eli Stone," 2008, title character (Johnny Lee Miller) loosens life and changes priorities after neurological condition prompts auditory/extrasensory hallucinations, premonitions and dawning spiritual enlightenment.
- Book, The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
- Book, "The Spiral Staircase" by Karen Armstrong, an autobiography including descriptions of her long undiagnosed Temporal lobe epilepsy.
- The music video for "Epilepsy is Dancing" from the album The Crying Light by Antony and the Johnsons
- Television Show "Perception", season 1, episode 5 "Messenger" starring Eric McCormack
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